Staff React Native Engineer, Kraken
Pro
Cryptocurrency exchange
Posted today
Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Posted today
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!
Desirable
- 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
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Our take
Kraken is one of the world's leading and longest-standing cryptocurrency exchanges, known for its focus on transparency and security. The platform offers trading across a wide range of digital assets and fiat currencies, including USD, EUR, and CAD, and serves millions of users globally. Consistently rated as one of the most trusted and secure exchanges in the industry, Kraken has built a reputation on reliability, users protection, and a commitment to its proof-of-reserves verification that allows clients to independently confirm their holdings.
Kraken allows users to trade and invest in spot and derivatives markets, as well as participate in staking, custody, and tokenized asset products. It was also among the first exchanges to undergo a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit and continues to lead with innovations such as tokenized US stocks ("xStocks") for non-US customers and expanded institutional services. Alongside this, the company's offerings are designed to make digital finance more accessible and complaint while supporting traders, investors, and enterprises navigating the fast-evolving crypto landscape.
On top of this success, Kraken reported a standout performance in the third quarter of 2025 - doubling its revenue year-on-year to $648M and boosting quarterly profit margins to nearly 28%. Trading volumes climbed to $562B, while assets on the platform rose to $59B, emphasizing the exchange's growth and strong customer confidence. Having expanded its product suite, strengthened its institutional reach, and invested in governance and compliance, Kraken is now in a position for continued expansion (and, potentially, a future public listing), as one of the most resilient and respected names in the global crypto market.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2025
$800m
LATE VC
Sep 2025
$500m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Remote-first and work from anywhere
- Competitive salary regardless of location, and the option to be paid in crypto
- Equity grants offered with most roles
- Flexible paid time off
- Wellness Program that includes a fitness coach, free access to wellbeing apps, and a monthly wellness stipend
- Mental health and life coaching benefits for you and your dependents
- Startup-level autonomy with the scale and learning opportunities of a global platform
- Remote workstation set-up bonus
- And more!
Leadership
David Ripley
(Co-CEO)David joined Kraken in 2016 as COO and became Co-CEO in 2023. Prior to this, he co-founded Glidera where he served as the CEO for nearly 3 years. He also spent over 6 years at The Boston Consulting Group, joining as a Consultant before becoming a Project Lead and then Principal.
Arjun Sethi
(Co-CEO)Arjun is the co-founder of Tribe Capital, Foundation, Termina, and Kapital.
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