Senior Software Engineer - React Native - Consumer - Asian Markets

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken, founded in 2011, is a crypto platform trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally. The Consumer Mobile team builds the Kraken app primarily using React Native to create fast, intuitive financial experiences.

• Strong experience with React Native including shipping production applications and making architectural decisions
• Product-building mindset with strong product judgment, turning loosely defined problems into measurable outcomes
• End-to-end feature ownership using metrics, experimentation, and feedback to improve shipped features
• Experience building responsive, data-rich applications using APIs and real-time data
• Collaboration skills in written and verbal English with Product and Design teams
• Versatility and thoughtful use of AI tools like Cursor, Copilot, or Claude while retaining engineering judgment
• Proven experience building and shipping consumer mobile apps for Asian markets, including understanding UX conventions, technical limitations, and overcoming firewall and connectivity challenges

Nice to have:

• Experience in fintech, trading, crypto, payments, or related financial technology environments
• Experience with real-time or streaming data and improving mobile app performance and reliability
• Experience across both mobile and web platforms or in startup/SME environments working closely with Product and Design
• Native mobile development skills in Swift or Kotlin, with good judgment on when to work below the React Native layer
• Chinese language proficiency such as Mandarin, or proficiency in another Asian language

• Build and own high-quality React Native features from problem definition through launch, measurement, and iteration
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape financial experiences including product discovery and trading
• Work with APIs and dynamic or real-time data, making decisions on state management, rendering, performance, architecture, and reliability
• Raise product-engineering standards through technical discussions, code reviews, and collaboration
• Act as the subject-matter expert on regional UX, design expectations, and technical constraints for the new Asian market app
• Guide approaches on firewall and connectivity restrictions, and select appropriate vendors and tooling such as telemetry solutions

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific deadline is stated. Applicants may redact personal information such as age or graduation dates from resumes. The employer considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Equal opportunity employment without discrimination based on protected characteristics is assured.