Engineering Manager - Frontend - Consumer

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken, founded in 2011, is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally, offering spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services for individual and institutional clients.

• Proven experience leading engineering teams delivering customer-facing products at scale.
• Experience managing combined frontend and backend engineering teams.
• Deep technical background in React Native with a solid understanding of modern frontend architectures.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, able to align frontend and backend efforts in a complex, multi-platform environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Empathy for the customer and passion for building intuitive, performant consumer experiences.
• Experience building large-scale consumer or financial products.

Nice to have:

• Background in systems design or distributed architectures.
• Working knowledge of Rust (or similar languages such as Go or C++), and familiarity with async architectures, APIs, and microservices.
• Experience in the payments and card domains.

• Lead a cross-functional team of frontend and backend engineers responsible for core Kraken consumer experiences.
• Own the end-to-end UX for key Kraken features across mobile and client platforms.
• Guide the delivery of high-quality consumer applications, focusing on usability, performance, and scale.
• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to define and deliver high-impact features with measurable business and customer value.
• Collaborate with other Engineering Managers and Tech Leads to maintain consistent engineering standards across services and client platforms.
• Champion engineering excellence, maintainable architectures, and code quality.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical growth, collaboration, and inclusivity.
• Strengthen team organization and delivery using agile processes, project tracking, and engineering metrics (e.g., DORA, cycle time).

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. Applicants may redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. The company considers qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Equal opportunity employer without discrimination based on protected characteristics according to federal, state, or local laws.