Engineering Manager – Growth Product - Kraken

Payward — the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks — has spent the last 15 years building globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms to advance an open financial system.

The Team

Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.

The Growth Engineering team builds the experiences that connect people to our ecosystem for the first time and keeps them coming back. We design and ship the systems behind our marketing funnels, signup and KYC flows, and the key engagement features that help new users fund their accounts and explore our products. It’s a team with direct influence on company growth, global reach, and user engagement at scale.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll guide a cross-functional engineering team responsible for delivering measurable impact on growth metrics. You’ll work closely with Product and Design partners to plan, prioritize, and execute projects that accelerate user acquisition, activation, and retention. You’ll help engineers do their best work — setting clear direction, removing blockers, and maintaining strong alignment across stakeholders.

The Opportunity

• Lead, mentor, and support a cross-functional team of engineers delivering growth-critical systems and features.
• Collaborate daily with Product and Design to define scope, set priorities, and ensure seamless execution.
• Keep projects moving forward by maintaining clear expectations, realistic estimates, and transparent communication with stakeholders.
• Provide technical guidance and context to help engineers make sound architectural and implementation decisions.
• Foster a culture of accountability, trust, and learning, helping the team grow their impact and autonomy.
• Improve team processes, communication, and collaboration across time zones.
• Partner with other engineering leaders to ensure consistency and best practices across the broader Growth organization.

What You Bring

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality results in a collaborative environment.
• Strong people leadership skills with an investment in coaching, clarity, and empowerment.
• Solid technical foundation; ability to engage in design discussions, code reviews, and help engineers make pragmatic decisions.
• Familiarity with one or more modern programming languages: React and React Native on the front end, Rust on the backend, or experience in TypeScript, Go, or Node.js.
• A product mindset — you care about how your team’s work impacts users and moves key metrics.
• Clear communication and organizational skills, with the ability to align engineering efforts with business goals.
• Experience working in distributed, remote-first teams.

Nice to Haves

• Experience with analytics, experimentation, or growth tooling.
• Exposure to scaling teams or processes during high-growth phases.
• Background in product engineering, building user-facing features, and owning delivery from idea to launch.