Staff Software Engineer – Growth

Staff Software Engineer – Growth at Kraken

Krakenites are a world‑class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Kraken is committed to industry‑leading security, crypto education, and world‑class client support.

Responsibilities

Lead the technical direction for key Growth initiatives, from experimentation platforms to global onboarding and engagement systems. As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, you’ll lead complex, cross‑cutting technical initiatives that directly impact user acquisition, activation, and retention. You’ll drive architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure the systems we build are reliable, scalable, and measurable in their impact.

• Design and evolve distributed, high‑scale systems that power user acquisition and retention.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data teams to identify growth opportunities and translate them into reliable, measurable engineering solutions.
• Mentor engineers across Product and Platform teams — guiding architecture, design, and execution.
• Ensure high engineering standards across the stack: reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Collaborate across teams to align on architecture, tooling, and technical strategy.
• Contribute to and influence the broader engineering culture by advocating for craftsmanship, impact, and accountability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large‑scale technical projects or owning critical systems end to end.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript or Rust, and versatility across the stack with Go, Python, or Ruby is a plus.
• Broad technical range and curiosity — comfortable diving into any layer of the stack.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.
• Experience designing systems that balance experimentation velocity with long‑term maintainability.
• A product mindset—thinking in terms of outcomes and user impact, not just code.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and design.
• Experience operating autonomously in a distributed, remote‑first environment.
• Set the bar for technical excellence and embody ownership, craftsmanship, and accountability.

Nice to Haves

• Background in growth engineering, experimentation platforms, or developer experience.
• Experience with infrastructure and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD.
• Track record of influencing technical strategy across multiple teams or domains.

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Kraken is an equal opportunity employer and we do not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.