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About the role
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services.
The Consumer Mobile team builds the Kraken app, the interface millions of people use to interact with their money. We work primarily in React Native, building products that make complex financial experiences intuitive, fast and trustworthy.
We're looking for a Senior React Native Engineer who thinks like a product builder. Our engineers work closely with Product and Design to understand problems, challenge assumptions, shape solutions and measure whether what we ship improves the experience for our clients.
What you'll do
- Work across engineering, product and design to turn real client problems into thoughtful mobile experiences, starting with ambiguous problems rather than perfectly defined specifications.
- Own features end-to-end, from understanding the problem and shaping the solution through implementation, launch and iteration, using data and client feedback to drive improvements.
- Build high-quality experiences in React Native across a financial product where responsiveness, reliability and trust matter, whether improving product discovery, creating trading experiences, or simplifying journeys.
- Partner closely with Product and Design, contributing engineering perspectives early in the product-development process rather than waiting for finished requirements.
- Work with APIs and real-time data to create responsive, data-rich mobile experiences, making thoughtful decisions around state management, rendering, performance and architecture.
- Operate with the ownership and versatility of a product engineer, wearing multiple hats and moving between product problems and technical challenges.
- Help raise the product-engineering bar across Consumer Mobile through technical discussions, code reviews, collaboration and strong product ownership.
What they're looking for
- Strong React Native experience, having built and shipped meaningful production applications and being comfortable making architectural and implementation decisions across a modern mobile codebase.
- A product-building mindset with strong product judgment: start with the client problem, challenge requirements or simplify solutions, and work with Product and Design to turn ambiguous requirements into strong engineering solutions.
- Evidence of product impact, explaining what you've built, why you built it and what happened afterwards, and using metrics, experimentation and client behaviour to evaluate impact.
- End-to-end ownership across discovery, technical design, implementation, launch, measurement and iteration.
- Comfort with data-rich applications, APIs and dynamic or real-time data, and the engineering considerations involved in turning that data into responsive client experiences.
- Close collaboration with Product and Design, and effective written and verbal English communication across a globally distributed team.
- Versatility and AI proficiency: use AI tools such as Cursor, Copilot and Claude thoughtfully to move faster while retaining ownership of engineering decisions and quality, and thrive in environments where you wear multiple hats.
- A track record of taking loosely defined product problems and turning them into features or products that delivered measurable client impact.
Nice to have
- Experience building products in fintech, trading, crypto, payments or another financial technology environment.
- An understanding of how trading, investing or financial products work and an interest in the problems our clients are trying to solve.
- Experience with real-time or streaming data and building interfaces where information changes rapidly.
- Experience working across both mobile and web, bringing perspective from broader frontend or product-engineering work.
- Experience in a startup or small-to-medium-sized technology company where engineers work closely with Product and Design.
- Native mobile experience in Swift or Kotlin and an understanding of when dropping below the React Native layer is the right engineering decision.
- Experience improving application performance, responsiveness and reliability across a range of mobile devices.
- A background in taking loosely defined product problems and turning them into products or features with measurable client impact.
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