Engineering Manager - Growth

Summary

Join Kraken's Growth team as an Onboarding Engineering Manager and lead a team dedicated to enhancing the user onboarding experience. You will manage a cross-functional team, scale the team by hiring and mentoring engineers, and identify and resolve inefficiencies. Define the long-term vision for Kraken's onboarding, promote cross-team alignment, and bring a product-centric mindset to problem-solving. Your work will directly impact Kraken's ability to convert potential users into active participants in the crypto economy. This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly impact how Kraken introduces crypto to the world. The position is fully remote.

Requirements

• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

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• #LI-DP1