Engineering Manager - Growth

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Manage a cross-functional engineering team working on one of Kraken’s most impactful application areas, ensuring seamless collaboration and delivery.
• - Scale the team by hiring passionate engineers, mentoring them, and fostering an environment that challenges and fulfils team members.
• - Identify and resolve inefficiencies in processes and codebases while driving the adoption of engineering best practices to maintain high-quality, scalable solutions.
• - Define the long-term vision for Kraken’s onboarding domain, ensuring an exceptional, user-focused experience that aligns with the crypto movement.
• - Promote cross-team alignment and ensure workloads are meaningful, balancing technical challenges with team morale and productivity.
• - Bring a product-centric mindset to problem solving, meaningfully affecting business outcomes, and a pragmatic approach.

Required Skills

• - Proven experience (4+ years) as an engineering manager with a strong track record of leading teams of 5+ engineers in a cross-functional environment, including both backend and frontend engineers.
• - Exceptional leadership skills, with a focus on empowering and developing team members, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.
• - Hands-on experience with modern programming languages, particularly Rust or TypeScript, with the ability to guide and mentor engineers working in these ecosystems.
• - Experience designing and maintaining scalable systems, with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and high performance.
• - Demonstrated success collaborating closely with Product and Product Design teams, fostering alignment across disciplines to deliver high-quality, user-centric solutions.
• - In-depth knowledge of software development best practices and software delivery methodologies; you have a keen ability to identify team bottlenecks, technical challenges, or process inefficiencies and can implement strategies to overcome them.
• - Strong experience managing teams in a geographically distributed, remote-first environment, ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and cohesion across time zones.
• - Experience managing in a fast paced environment focused on results, with an ownership mindset for outcomes, not just output.
• - A Continuous Improvement (CI) mindset; you actively seek opportunities to enhance the team’s operating model, workflows, and overall dynamics to improve performance and morale.
• - A deep passion for crypto and blockchain technologies, with a strong belief in the crypto movement and its potential to revolutionize industries.
• - Strong communication and interpersonal skills, capable of articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and aligning teams around a shared vision.

Benefits

• - Offers Equity
• - Offers Bonus
• - Wellness allowance
• - Other benefits [US Only] (including medical, dental, vision and 401(k))