Staff React Native Engineer - Pro

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.

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The team

We are currently seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer (React Native) to join our Pro Trading team.

The Pro team is responsible for Kraken Pro’s web and mobile trading experiences across spot and futures markets. Distributed globally, the team builds and scales high-performance trading interfaces using Typescript and React, delivering fast, reliable, and intuitive experiences for advanced traders.
Join the Pro team and help build the internet of money. You’ll lead and grow a distributed team of engineers responsible for the frontend and mobile experience powering Kraken Pro. In this role, you’ll drive technical direction, product execution, and engineering excellence across Kraken’s next generation trading platform.

The opportunity

• 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

Skills you should HODL

• 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 haves

• 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

Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.