Staff React Native Engineer
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Job description
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.
The opportunity
Own and drive the technical vision and architecture of Kraken's Pro mobile
Build and maintain high-performance mobile s 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
Requirements
Do you have experience in iOS?, 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 s
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
Nice to haves
Significant experience of developing micro interactions and animations in React Native
Experience building high-performance consumer or fintech s
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