Staff Software Engineer Growth

Kraken

The team

The Growth Engineering team builds the experiences that connect people to our ecosystem for the first time and keep them coming back. We design and ship the systems behind our marketing funnels, signup and KYC flows, and the key engagement features that help new users fund their accounts and explore our products. It s a team with direct influence on company growth, global reach, and user engagement at scale. Our products serve millions of users globally.

How We Work

• 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.

Why This Role Matters
Every decision you make will shape how people discover, trust, and engage with our products globally. As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, 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 growth through engineering excellence.

The opportunity

As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, you ll lead complex, cross-cutting technical initiatives that directly impact user acquisition, activation, and retention. You ll drive architectural direction, mentor engineers, and ensure the systems we build are reliable, scalable, and measurable in their impact.

This is a high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role for engineers who excel at translating business goals into systems that drive growth balancing product velocity with long-term technical excellence.

Lead the technical direction for key Growth initiatives, from experimentation platforms to global onboarding and engagement systems.

• Design and evolve distributed, high-scale systems that power user acquisition and retention.

• Partner with Product, Design, and Data teams to identify growth opportunities and translate them into reliable, measurable engineering solutions.

• Mentor engineers across Product and Platform teams guiding architecture, design, and execution.

• Ensure high engineering standards across the stack: reliability, performance, security, and maintainability.

• Collaborate across teams to align on architecture, tooling, and technical strategy.

• Contribute to and influence the broader engineering culture by advocating for craftsmanship, impact, and accountability.

Skills you should HODL

• Proven experience leading large-scale technical projects or owning critical systems end to end.

• Deep expertise in TypeScript or Rust, our core languages and the versatility to work confidently across the full stack. Experience with other languages such as Go, Python, or Ruby is a plus and demonstrates your ability to adapt quickly.

• Broad technical range and curiosity you re comfortable diving into any layer of the stack, from front-end performance to backend architecture and infrastructure.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, reliability, and performance optimization.

• Experience designing systems that balance experimentation velocity with long-term maintainability.

• A product mindset you think in terms of outcomes and user impact, not just code.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills across engineering, product, and design.

• Experience operating autonomously in a distributed, remote-first environment.

• You set the bar for technical excellence and embody the ownership, craftsmanship, and accountability we expect across the organization.

Nice to haves

• Background in growth engineering, experimentation platforms, or developer experience.

• Experience with infrastructure and tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, or GitLab CI/CD.

• Track record of influencing technical strategy across multiple teams or domains.