The opportunity

📍Manage a cross-functional engineering team working on one of Kraken’s most impactful application areas, ensuring seamless collaboration and delivery. 📍Scale the team by hiring passionate engineers, mentoring them, and fostering an environment that challenges and fulfils team members. 📍Identify and resolve inefficiencies in processes and codebases while driving the adoption of engineering best practices to maintain high-quality, scalable solutions. 📍Define the long-term vision for Kraken’s onboarding domain, ensuring an exceptional, user-focused experience that aligns with the crypto movement. 📍Promote cross-team alignment and ensure workloads are meaningful, balancing technical challenges with team morale and productivity. 📍Bring a product-centric mindset to problem solving, meaningfully affecting business outcomes, and a pragmatic approach.

Skills you should HODL

📍Proven experience (4+ years) as an engineering manager with a strong track record of leading teams of 5+ engineers in a cross-functional environment, including both backend and frontend engineers. 📍Exceptional leadership skills, with a focus on empowering and developing team members, fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation. 📍Hands-on experience with modern programming languages, particularly Rust or TypeScript, with the ability to guide and mentor engineers working in these ecosystems. 📍Experience designing and maintaining scalable systems, with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and high performance. 📍Demonstrated success collaborating closely with Product and Product Design teams, fostering alignment across disciplines to deliver high-quality, user-centric solutions.

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