Responsibilities
- Partner with product managers, designers, and analysts to identify growth opportunities and turn them into data-driven engineering solutions.
- Build reusable services and components for marketing campaigns, onboarding, KYC, and first-funding experiences across web and mobile.
- Collaborate on distributed systems handling high volumes of global traffic while maintaining performance and reliability.
- Participate in design and architecture discussions focused on user impact, scalability, and maintainability.
- Measure, experiment, and iterate using data and experimentation frameworks to understand user behavior.
- Improve engineering standards, performance, and security practices across the stack.
Requirements
- Require 5+ years of software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems at scale.
- Proficiency building full-stack applications with TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or Ruby and React or React Native.
- Understanding of distributed systems, performance optimization, debugging, and secure software design.
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, MySQL/MariaDB, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD.
- Product mindset focused on measurable business and user outcomes.
- Ability to work autonomously in a globally distributed, remote-first environment.
- Preferred experience with A/B testing, analytics instrumentation, experimentation platforms, growth engineering, user funnels, lifecycle, conversion optimization, data analysis tools, or experimentation frameworks.
Benefits
- Remote-first work environment with asynchronous collaboration across time zones.
- Opportunity to work on products serving millions of users globally and directly influence growth, engagement, and monetization.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated.
- Payward is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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About Kraken
Kraken helps people own the power of their money. Founded in 2011, we're one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, now offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and more. Trusted by millions of institutions, professional traders, and consumers across 190+ countries. Built on the belief that everyone should own the power of their money, Kraken has been a category leader in crypto since 2011. We've grown into a global financial platform offering crypto, stocks, futures, staking, payments and institutional infrastructure — all on a single foundation built for the future of finance. Our product lineup: — Kraken: the world's leading hybrid investment platform, built for the future of finance from the ground up — Kraken Pro: the all-in command center that unleashes your trading potential — Krak: the next-generation money platform that turns every type of asset into usable money Proof of Reserves since 2014. Assets held 1:1. Trusted by 13M+ people, thousands of institutions, and a growing community of developers building on Kraken rails. Our mission: accelerate the global adoption of crypto so everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Risk Disclosure: https://www.kraken.com/en-ca/social-media-disclosure