Engineering Manager – Growth Foundations

Kraken

5d • $110,400 - $220,800 • Remote

About The Position

As an Engineering Manager within Growth Foundations, you’ll lead and develop a team of engineers who deliver high-impact features, platforms, and tools that power our growth. You’ll ensure the team is aligned, supported, and set up to execute with excellence — turning complex challenges into simple, reliable solutions that reach users around the world. You will also stay hands-on and deliver production grade features personally every day.

The Growth Foundations team builds the AI-native Growth Engine, enabling Growth teams across the company. We design and ship powerful AI-driven systems, tools and automations, as well as own the core infrastructure of Growth tools such as our website, user communications and martech. It’s a team with direct influence on company growth, global reach, and user engagement at scale. Our products serve millions of users globally.

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality results in a collaborative environment
• Strong people leadership skills — you invest in coaching, clarity, and empowerment
• Solid technical foundation, especially on the backend; you can engage in design discussions, code reviews, and help engineers make pragmatic decisions
• Strong individual contributor background — you write production-grade code and lead by example
• High proficiency in modern AI-driven development — you use AI daily to boost personal and team performance through automation
• Familiarity with one or more modern programming languages (e.g. TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or similar)
• A product mindset — 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 Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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 — 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed