Engineering Manager – Growth Product

The role

You will lead a cross-functional engineering team that builds growth features, including marketing funnels, signup and KYC flows, and engagement features. You will work daily with Product and Design to set priorities and deliver work that improves user acquisition, activation and retention.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor and support a cross-functional team of engineers delivering growth-critical systems and features.
• Collaborate daily with Product and Design to define scope, set priorities and ensure execution.
• Keep projects moving with clear expectations, realistic estimates and transparent stakeholder communication.
• Provide technical guidance so engineers can make sound architectural and implementation decisions.
• Foster a culture of accountability, trust and learning to grow the team's impact and autonomy.
• Improve team processes, communication and collaboration across time zones.
• Partner with other engineering leaders to keep consistency and best practices across the Growth organization.

Required qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality results in a collaborative environment.
• Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, clarity and empowerment.
• Solid technical foundation to engage in design discussions and code reviews.
• Familiarity with modern programming languages: React and React Native on the front end with a Rust-based backend, or TypeScript, Go, Node.js or similar.
• A product mindset focused on user impact and key metrics.
• Clear communication and organizational skills to align engineering efforts with business goals.
• Experience working in distributed, remote-first teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with analytics, experimentation or growth tooling.
• Exposure to scaling teams or processes during high-growth phases.
• Background in product engineering, building user-facing features and owning delivery from idea to launch.

Before you apply

• The posting says applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
• Applicants with criminal histories are considered, in line with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
• Candidates may be asked to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments, which are not the sole basis for hiring decisions.
• Applicants may redact age, date of birth and graduation dates from their resume.

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken was founded in 2011 and offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking and OTC services to over 10 million individuals and institutions.