Kraken

Software Engineer II - Frontend - Developer Platform

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3 days ago
Canada (city not specified) +21 moreMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Improve local and CI builds, type checking, linting, and automated tests.
  • Evolve the monorepo, package management, shared configuration, and developer environment tooling.
  • Improve web delivery pipelines, including preview environments, progressive rollouts, production monitoring, and rollback.
  • Build stronger automated validation, including browser-based checks for pre-release verification.
  • Investigate web performance and observability issues across application code, tooling, and delivery systems.
  • Lead tooling upgrades and migrations across engineering teams.
  • Own technical improvements from design through rollout and ongoing maintenance.

Requirements

  • Production web application development experience with strong React and modern JavaScript ecosystem knowledge.
  • Strong TypeScript and JavaScript skills, including Node.js experience for tooling and automation.
  • Understanding of browser behavior, module systems, bundling, caching, and web performance.
  • Experience improving developer tooling, build systems, automated testing, or CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ability to lead technical designs, communicate them clearly, and drive adoption across teams.
  • Ability to solve ambiguous problems practically and maintain systems after deployment.
  • Preferred experience with large monorepos, shared packages, pnpm, ESM, browser automation, end-to-end testing, web performance profiling, production observability, coding agents, GitLab CI, containers, cloud infrastructure, or open-source frontend infrastructure.

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About Kraken

1,001-5,000 employees

Kraken builds a global digital asset trading platform for individuals and institutions, offering spot, margin, futures, staking, OTC, and related infrastructure. The company generates revenue primarily from trading and financing fees and institutional services. Founded in 2011 and operated by privately held Payward, it is remote-first and serves customers worldwide; it has published cryptographic Proof of Reserves since 2014 to verify client asset holdings.

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