Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Kraken's Growth team as an Onboarding Engineering Manager and lead a team of talented engineers in enhancing the user onboarding experience. You will oversee the development of seamless account creation and KYC processes, creating personalized entry points for diverse user segments. This role requires managing a cross-functional team, scaling the team by hiring and mentoring engineers, and defining the long-term vision for Kraken's onboarding domain. You will collaborate closely with product managers and designers to craft exceptional user experiences. Your work will directly impact Kraken's ability to convert potential users into active participants in the crypto economy, significantly influencing how Kraken introduces crypto to the world.

Requirements

• Proven experience 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
• 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

Knowledge of onboarding-specific challenges, particularly in creating seamless and user-friendly experiences for both technical and non-technical users

Benefits

Fully remote company