Staff Software Engineer – Growth

Join to apply for the Staff Software Engineer – Growth role at Kraken . 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. Kraken is a mission‑focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. 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. 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 As a Staff Engineer on the Growth team, you’ll set technical direction through context and clarity, empower others, mentor through example and collaboration, and raise the technical bar across teams. Your work will shape how people discover, trust, and engage with our products globally. Opportunity 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. Key Responsibilities 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. Technical 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 versatility to work across the full stack. Experience with Go, Python, or Ruby is a plus. Broad technical range and curiosity — 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 optimisation. Experience designing systems that balance experimentation velocity with long‑term maintainability. A product mindset — thinking 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. Setting the bar for technical excellence and embodying ownership, craftsmanship, and accountability. Nice to Have 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. This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline. 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. Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, seeking the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills. As an equal‑opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. #J-18808-Ljbffr