Staff Software Engineer Growth

📋 Description

• • Join Kraken, a mission-focused company at the forefront of the cryptocurrency revolution, and contribute to accelerating global adoption of digital assets. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Growth team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of how users discover, trust, and engage with our world-class crypto products.
• • The Growth Engineering team is instrumental in building the foundational experiences that onboard new users into the Kraken ecosystem and foster long-term engagement. This includes designing, developing, and optimizing the systems that power our marketing funnels, seamless signup and KYC (Know Your Customer) processes, and critical engagement features that empower new users to fund their accounts and explore the vast potential of crypto.
• • This is a high-impact role where your technical decisions will directly influence company growth, global reach, and user engagement at an immense scale, serving millions of users worldwide.
• • As a Staff Engineer, you will be entrusted with significant ownership and autonomy, empowered to ship high-impact work with exceptional craftsmanship and unwavering accountability. You will operate within a fast-paced environment that encourages rapid experimentation, continuous learning from data and user feedback, and asynchronous collaboration across diverse global time zones.
• • Your contributions will directly shape how millions of individuals globally interact with and trust our products. You will be a key technical leader, setting the strategic direction for complex, cross-cutting initiatives. Your ability to provide technical clarity and context will empower fellow engineers to execute with confidence and precision.
• • You will mentor and uplift engineers across multiple teams through your example, collaborative approach, and deep technical expertise, consistently raising the technical bar for the entire organization. Ensuring our systems scale effectively while maintaining peak performance, robust reliability, and a clear sense of purpose will be paramount.
• • This role sits at a dynamic intersection of product strategy, marketing innovation, and core infrastructure development. You will be responsible for transforming ambitious ideas into tangible, measurable engineering solutions that drive significant business outcomes.
• • You will lead with a blend of accountability and empathy, fostering alignment among diverse teams around shared objectives. Your focus will be on building sustainable, scalable systems that leverage engineering excellence to unlock new avenues for growth.
• • Key Responsibilities:
• • Lead the technical vision and architectural direction for critical Growth initiatives, ranging from sophisticated experimentation platforms to streamlined global onboarding flows and engaging user retention systems.
• • Design, develop, and evolve highly scalable, distributed systems that form the backbone of user acquisition, activation, and retention strategies.
• • Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to identify emerging growth opportunities, translating them into robust, measurable, and impactful engineering solutions.
• • Mentor and guide software engineers across Product and Platform teams, providing technical leadership in architecture, design patterns, and execution strategies.
• • Uphold and champion the highest engineering standards across the entire technology stack, with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, security, and long-term maintainability.
• • Foster cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment on architectural decisions, tooling choices, and overarching technical strategy.
• • Actively contribute to and influence the broader engineering culture at Kraken, advocating for principles of craftsmanship, measurable impact, and proactive ownership.
• • This is a unique opportunity for a seasoned engineer who thrives on translating complex business goals into elegant, high-performance systems that demonstrably drive growth. You will balance the need for product velocity with a commitment to long-term technical excellence, ensuring our platform remains robust and adaptable.
• • You will be instrumental in building the future of crypto by creating the user journeys that make digital assets accessible and engaging for everyone, contributing directly to Kraken's mission of financial freedom and inclusion.
• • Embrace the challenge of operating autonomously within a fully remote, globally distributed team, leveraging asynchronous communication and a shared commitment to success.
• • Set the standard for technical excellence, embodying the ownership, craftsmanship, and accountability that define the Krakenite culture.