Staff Software Engineer – Growth

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Kraken is a mission‑focused company rooted in crypto values, accelerating global adoption of crypto to bring financial freedom and inclusion. A fully remote team spans 70+ countries and 50 languages, building premium products such as Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures. We prioritize security, education, and world‑class client support.

Growth Engineering builds the experiences that introduce users to our ecosystem and keep them engaged. We design and ship systems behind marketing funnels, signup & KYC flows, and engagement features that help new users fund their accounts and explore our products.

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• We give engineers ownership and trust them to ship high‑impact work with craftsmanship and accountability.
  
• We move quickly, experiment often, and learn fast from data and feedback.
  
• We work asynchronously across time zones, supporting each other with open communication and shared goals.
  

As a Staff Engineer, you will shape how people discover, trust, and engage with our products worldwide. You’ll set technical direction, mentor teams, and ensure our systems scale with performance, reliability, and purpose.

This high‑impact, hands‑on technical leadership role involves leading complex cross‑cutting initiatives that directly impact user acquisition, activation, and retention.

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• Lead technical direction for key Growth initiatives, from experimentation platforms to global onboarding and engagement systems.
  
• 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.
  

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• Proven experience leading large‑scale technical projects or owning critical systems end‑to‑end.
  
• Deep expertise in TypeScript or Rust, our core languages, with versatility across the full stack. Experience with Go, Python, or Ruby is a plus.
  
• Broad technical range and curiosity – comfortable diving into any layer of the stack, from front‑end performance to back‑end architecture and infrastructure.
  
• 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.
  
• Ability to set the bar for technical excellence and embody ownership, craftsmanship, and accountability.
  

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• 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.
  

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. We hire strictly based on merit, seeking the most suitable candidates for the role.

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

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• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
  
• Employment type: Full‑time
  
• Job function: Engineering and Information Technology