Responsibilities
- Own and drive the technical vision and architecture for Kraken Pro’s mobile application.
- Build and maintain high-performance mobile applications using React Native and TypeScript.
- Improve mobile app performance, reliability, scalability, startup time, responsiveness, and resource efficiency.
- Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams and ensure consistency and quality across a shared codebase.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver user-facing features.
- Lead diagnosis and resolution of critical production issues.
- Define engineering standards, best practices, and tooling for mobile development.
- Mentor engineers and raise the team’s technical capability.
- Stay hands-on with code while operating at a strategic platform level.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on mobile development.
- Deep expertise in React Native and TypeScript.
- Proven experience owning or leading large-scale production mobile applications.
- Strong understanding of mobile performance optimization, architecture, and debugging.
- Experience delivering measurable improvements in app performance, stability, load time, or efficiency.
- Solid knowledge of iOS and Android platforms.
- Experience working across multiple teams or shared platforms.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical direction across teams.
- Preferred: significant experience developing micro-interactions and animations in React Native.
- Preferred: experience building high-performance consumer or fintech applications.
- Preferred: familiarity with native mobile development using Swift or Kotlin.
- Preferred: experience defining or scaling mobile platforms across multiple teams.
- Preferred: experience in fast-growing or highly technical product environments.
- Preferred: contributions to open-source or the broader engineering community.
Benefits
- Applications are accepted on a rolling basis unless a specific deadline is stated.
- The company supports a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.
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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