Software Engineer - Mobile​/Frontend - Consumer

Staff Software Engineer - Mobile/Frontend - Consumer

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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. 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.

• 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.

Every decision you make will shape how people discover, trust, and engage with our Earn products globally. As a Staff Engineer on the Earn Pod, you’ll set technical direction through context and clarity, empowering others to execute with confidence. You’ll mentor through example and collaboration, raising the technical bar across teams and ensuring our systems scale with performance, reliability, and purpose.

This role sits at the intersection of product, marketing, and infrastructure, turning ideas into measurable results. You’ll lead with accountability and empathy, aligning teams around shared goals and building sustainable systems that drive the growth of Earn through engineering excellence.

• Set and evolve the frontend architecture and standards for Earn across all platforms (web + mobile).
• Lead high‑impact, cross‑app initiatives: major refactors, performance & reliability improvements, shared UI/component libraries or SDKs, and codebase modernization.
• Define and enforce frontend best practices, testing strategy, performance budgets, and accessibility standards.
• Collaborate deeply with backend, DeFi, and product/service teams to ensure coherent API contracts, state management, and data flow across surfaces.
• Work closely with Product & Design to translate complex Earn/crypto concepts into intuitive, user‑friendly, and performant UI/UX across user types (krak, consumer & pro).
• Mentorship and technical leadership: guide and review frontend engineers, influence roadmap choices, and act as a cross‑pod technical leader.

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, maintainable, high‑performance frontend applications across React / Next.js / React Native (or similar) stacks.
• Build reusable UI components, shared libraries/styles, and abstractions to support multiple apps and platforms.
• Optimize web/mobile performance, reliability, load‑times — especially critical for financial and crypto features involving real‑time data.
• Ensure UX consistency and quality (design system adherence, responsive/mobile‑first, accessibility, edge‑case handling).
• Define and enforce frontend testing, monitoring, and quality standards.
• Collaborate across teams — backend, devops, services, design, product — to shape APIs, data flows, error‑handling, and user flows, particularly for Earn features and DeFi integrations.
• Serve as a senior technical voice in architecture, tech‑strategy, and long‑term frontend planning.

• 6+ years (or equivalent) professional experience delivering complex web…