Engineering Manager – Growth Product

As an Engineering Manager on the Growth Product team at Kraken (part of Payward), you lead a cross-functional engineering team delivering the systems and features that connect users to the platform for the first time and drive retention at scale. You work directly with Product and Design to plan and execute projects that accelerate user acquisition, activation, and retention, guiding engineers to do their best work while maintaining strong alignment across stakeholders.

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

What you bring

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality results in a collaborative environment
• Strong people leadership skills focused on coaching, clarity, and empowerment
• A solid technical foundation that allows you to engage in design discussions, code reviews, and help engineers make pragmatic decisions
• Familiarity with one or more modern programming languages, such as React and React Native on the front end paired with a Rust-based backend, or TypeScript, Go, Node.js, 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, experimentation, or growth tooling
• Exposure to scaling teams or processes during high-growth phases
• Background in product engineering, building user-facing features and owning delivery from idea to launch

About Kraken

Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally. Founded in 2011, it offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services. Kraken is part of Payward, which operates a suite of modern financial infrastructure platforms including NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks.