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Kraken · 2 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer - Mobile/Frontend - Consumer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$127K/yr - $254K/yr

6+ years exp

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, seeking to accelerate the global adoption of crypto. The Staff Frontend Engineer will shape the technical foundation of the Earn Pod, leading initiatives and ensuring frontend excellence across all platforms while collaborating with various teams.

BitcoinBlockchainCryptocurrencyEthereum

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Set and evolve the frontend architecture and standards for Earn across all platforms (web + mobile)

Lead high-impact, cross-app initiatives: major refactors, performance & reliability improvements, shared UI/component libraries or SDKs, and codebase modernization

Define and enforce frontend best practices, testing strategy, performance budgets, and accessibility standards

Collaborate deeply with backend, DeFi, and product/service teams to ensure coherent API contracts, state management, and data flow across surfaces

Work closely with Product & Design to translate complex Earn/crypto concepts into intuitive, user-friendly, and performant UI/UX across user types (krak, consumer & pro)

Mentorship and technical leadership: guide and review frontend engineers, influence roadmap choices, and act as a cross-pod technical leader

Architect, build, and maintain scalable, maintainable, high-performance frontend applications across React / Next.js / React Native (or similar) stacks

Build reusable UI components, shared libraries/styles, and abstractions to support multiple apps and platforms

Optimize web/mobile performance, reliability, load-times — especially critical for financial and crypto features involving real-time data

Ensure UX consistency and quality (design system adherence, responsive/mobile-first, accessibility, edge-case handling)

Define and enforce frontend testing, monitoring, and quality standards

Collaborate across teams — backend, devops, services, design, product — to shape APIs, data flows, error-handling, and user flows, particularly for Earn features and DeFi integrations

Serve as a senior technical voice in architecture, tech-strategy, and long-term frontend planning

Qualification

JavaScript/TypeScriptReact/Next.js/React NativeFrontend architectureHTML5/CSS3Performance tuningAPI-driven designAnalytical thinkingCollaboration skillsProblem-solvingMentorship

Required

6+ years (or equivalent) professional experience delivering complex web and/or mobile applications

Deep expertise with JavaScript/TypeScript, React (or equivalent component-based framework), and modern frontend ecosystems (e.g. Next.js, React Native, consistent build pipelines)

Strong foundation in HTML5, CSS3 (or CSS-in-JS / styling solutions), responsive layout, cross-browser/device compatibility, accessibility, UI/UX best practices

Experience architecting large-scale, maintainable frontend systems — component libraries, shared modules, code reuse, scalable state management, performance tuning

Proven ability to lead technical direction, influence design and architecture decisions, and deliver across multiple applications or codebases

Excellent collaboration skills — able to work closely with backend/service teams, design, product, and other stakeholders to deliver cross-functional features

Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and ability to trade off short-term needs with long-term architecture/maintainability

Experience building or maintaining shared UI component libraries or SDKs across multiple platforms (web & mobile)

Background with backend-integration patterns, API-driven frontend design, state management for real-time data, and cross-platform consistency

Demonstrated track record of mentoring, code reviews, engineering culture influence, and driving engineering excellence across teams

Preferred

Previous experience working in fintech, crypto, trading, or yield/interest-bearing products — familiarity with financial flows, security implications, real-time data

Familiarity with crypto-specific UX challenges (e.g. wallet flows, permission/consent flows, error-handling for financial/deFi services)

Company

Kraken

Glassdoor4.5

Kraken is a global cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows users to buy, sell, and trade digital assets securely.

Founded in 1911

Remote First, US

1001-5000 employees

https://www.kraken.com/

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