Staff React Native Engineer - Pro

Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, aiming to accelerate the global adoption of crypto for financial freedom and inclusion. The Pro team is responsible for Kraken Pro’s web and mobile trading experiences across spot and futures markets, building and scaling high-performance trading interfaces using Typescript and React for advanced traders. The company operates fully remote with Krakenites in 70+ countries.

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong focus on mobile development
• Deep expertise in React Native and TypeScript
• Proven experience owning or leading large-scale, production mobile applications
• Strong understanding of mobile performance optimisation, architecture, and debugging
• Experience delivering measurable improvements to app performance (e.g. load time, stability, efficiency)
• Solid knowledge of iOS and Android platforms
• Experience working across multiple teams or shared platforms
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across teams
• A proactive, ownership-driven mindset with a bias for action

Nice to have:

• Significant experience of developing micro interactions and animations in React Native
• Experience building high-performance consumer or fintech applications
• Familiarity with native mobile development (Swift, Kotlin, etc.)
• Experience defining or scaling mobile platforms across multiple teams
• Background in fast-growing or highly technical product environments
• Contributions to open-source or the broader engineering community

• Own and drive the technical vision and architecture of Kraken’s Pro mobile application
• Build and maintain high-performance mobile applications using React Native and TypeScript
• Lead initiatives to improve app performance, reliability, and scalability (e.g. startup time, responsiveness, resource efficiency)
• Act as a technical leader across multiple teams, ensuring consistency and quality across a shared codebase
• Partner with Product, Design, and Backend teams to deliver impactful, user-facing features
• Take the lead during critical production issues, diagnosing problems and driving solutions
• Define and evolve engineering standards, best practices, and tooling for mobile development
• Mentor engineers and elevate the overall technical capability of the team
• Stay close to the code while operating at a strategic, platform level

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