Senior Software Engineer - React Native - Consumer

Kraken

5d • $110,400 - $220,800

About The Position

Payward, the parent company behind Kraken and other financial platforms, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with React Native experience to join the Consumer Mobile team. This team builds the Kraken app, which millions use to interact with their finances. The role involves working primarily in React Native to create intuitive, fast, and trustworthy financial experiences. The team is expanding into Asia and building a new app specifically for Asian users, requiring genuine experience with the region's distinct user expectations, design language, and technical constraints.

Founded in 2011, Kraken is a long-standing crypto platform trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions globally, offering various trading and financial services. The Consumer Mobile team focuses on product-minded engineering, collaborating closely with Product and Design to understand client problems, shape solutions, and measure their impact.

Requirements

• Strong React Native experience, including shipping meaningful production applications and making sound architectural and implementation decisions in a modern mobile codebase
• A product-building mindset and strong product judgment. You start with the client problem, challenge or simplify requirements when needed, and turn loosely defined problems into measurable product outcomes
• End-to-end feature ownership, with the ability to use metrics, experimentation, client behavior, and feedback to assess and improve what you ship
• Experience building responsive, data-rich applications using APIs and dynamic or real-time data, alongside close collaboration with Product and Design in written and verbal English
• Versatility and thoughtful AI use. You are comfortable wearing multiple hats and use tools such as Cursor, Copilot, or Claude to work faster while retaining responsibility for engineering judgment and quality
• Proven experience building and shipping consumer mobile apps for Asian markets. You understand the region’s UX and design conventions, its technical limitations, and how to navigate launch challenges including firewall and connectivity restrictions. You can clearly explain how you have solved these problems before

Nice To Haves

• Experience in fintech, trading, crypto, payments, or another financial technology environment, with an understanding of trading, investing, or financial products
• Experience with real-time or streaming data, and improving mobile application performance, responsiveness, and reliability across a range of devices
• Experience across both mobile and web, or in a startup or small-to-medium-sized technology company where engineers work closely with Product and Design
• Native mobile experience in Swift or Kotlin, including sound judgment about when to work below the React Native layer
• Chinese language proficiency, such as Mandarin, or another Asian language

Responsibilities

• Build and own high-quality React Native features end to end, from ambiguous client problems and solution design through implementation, launch, measurement, and iteration
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape thoughtful, responsive, and trustworthy financial experiences, including product discovery, trading, and simplified client journeys
• Work with APIs and dynamic or real-time data, making strong decisions on state management, rendering, performance, architecture, and reliability
• Raise the product-engineering bar through technical discussions, code reviews, collaboration, strong product ownership, and a willingness to move between product and technical challenges
• Help build Kraken’s new app for Asian markets. Act as the team’s subject-matter guide on regional UX and design expectations, practical approaches to firewall and connectivity restrictions, and appropriate vendors and tooling such as telemetry solutions

Benefits

• We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills for the job.
• We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgeable about crypto.
• We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process.
• As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

What This Job Offers

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