Mobile Engineer Onboarding

Building the Future of Crypto

Our Krakenites are a world-class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

What makes us different?

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. For over a decade, Kraken’s focus on our mission and crypto ethos has attracted many of the most talented crypto experts in the world.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app. Learn how to create a Kraken account here.

As a fully remote company, we have Krakenites in 70+ countries who speak over 50 languages. Krakenites are industry pioneers who develop premium crypto products for experienced traders, institutions, and newcomers to the space. Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support through our products like Kraken Pro, Desktop, Wallet, and Kraken Futures.

Become a Krakenite and build the future of crypto!

The Growth Engineering team builds the experiences that connect people to our ecosystem for the first time — and keep 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.

Our work spans Payward products across web and mobile, helping users around the world discover, trust, and engage with our ecosystem. By combining product thinking with engineering excellence, we turn ideas into measurable improvements across acquisition, activation, and long-term engagement.

Within Growth, the Onboarding teams focus on creating seamless entry points to Payward products — guiding users from account creation through their first revenue-generating action with clarity, confidence, and minimal friction.

As a Staff Mobile Engineer on the Growth Onboarding team, you will lead complex, cross-cutting technical initiatives that shape mobile onboarding experiences for Payward’s products.

You will drive architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure the systems we build are scalable, reliable, and capable of supporting rapid experimentation.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role for engineers who enjoy translating product opportunities into robust mobile systems that drive measurable activation. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Marketing teams to design onboarding experiences that guide users from account creation to their first revenue-generating action across Payward products.

• Lead the technical direction for mobile onboarding initiatives across Payward products
• Design and evolve high-quality mobile applications using React Native, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability at scale
• Partner with Product, Design, and Data teams to identify onboarding and activation opportunities and translate them into measurable engineering solutions
• Architect reusable mobile components, patterns, and systems that support experimentation and rapid iteration across onboarding flows
• Mentor engineers and guide architectural decisions across mobile and product engineering teams
• Ensure strong engineering standards across the mobile stack, including performance, security, testing, and maintainability
• Collaborate across teams to align on architecture, tooling, and technical strategy for Payward product onboarding experiences

We’d love to see some of the following — but don’t worry if you don’t meet every point.

• Proven experience leading large‑scale mobile projects or owning critical mobile systems end‑to‑end
• Deep expertise in JavaScript or Type Script, with strong experience building applications using React Native
• Strong understanding of mobile architecture, performance optimization, and scalable UI systems
• Experience designing systems that support experimentation and data‑driven…