Engineering Manager – Growth Foundations

As an Engineering Manager within Growth Foundations at Kraken, you lead and develop a team of engineers who deliver high-impact features, platforms, and tools that power company growth. The Growth Foundations team builds the AI-native Growth Engine, enabling Growth teams across the company with AI-driven systems, tools, and automations, as well as core infrastructure for growth tools like the website, user communications, and martech. Your products serve millions of users globally, and you stay hands-on, delivering production-grade features personally every day.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and support a cross-functional team of engineers delivering growth-critical systems and features
• Collaborate daily with Product and Design to define scope, set priorities, and ensure seamless execution
• Keep projects moving forward by maintaining clear expectations, realistic estimates, and transparent communication with stakeholders
• Provide technical guidance and context to help engineers make sound architectural and implementation decisions
• Foster a culture of accountability, trust, and learning, helping the team grow their impact and autonomy
• Improve team processes, communication, and collaboration across time zones
• Partner with other engineering leaders to ensure consistency and best practices across the broader Growth organization
• Leverage AI tooling daily to boost personal and team productivity
• Stay hands-on in the codebase, writing production-grade code and setting the bar for quality, reliability, and speed

What you bring

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality results in a collaborative environment
• Strong people leadership skills with a focus on coaching, clarity, and empowerment
• A solid technical foundation, especially on the backend, enabling you to engage in design discussions, code reviews, and help engineers make pragmatic decisions
• A strong individual contributor background where you write production-grade code and lead by example
• High proficiency in modern AI-driven development, using AI daily to boost personal and team performance through automation
• Familiarity with one or more modern programming languages such as TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or similar
• A product mindset where you care about how your team's work impacts users and moves key metrics
• Clear communication and organizational skills with the ability to align engineering efforts with business goals
• Experience working in distributed, remote-first teams

Nice to have

• Experience with analytics, performance marketing, paid marketing, experimentation, or growth tooling
• Background in developer experience, SDKs, or internal platforms
• Exposure to scaling teams or processes during high-growth phases

About Kraken

Kraken, founded in 2011, is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally. The platform offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients. Kraken is part of Payward, the parent company behind multiple financial infrastructure products including NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks.