Engineering Manager, AI-Driven Growth Foundations

TALENTMATE; Dubai; Remote; AED 441,000 - 661,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken’s Growth Foundations team seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed group delivering high-impact growth features and AI-driven tools. You will mentor engineers, partner with product and design, and drive reliable, scalable solutions used by millions worldwide.

You will stay hands-on, guiding architecture, and modeling accountability while fostering autonomy and collaboration across time zones and geographies. Join a global crypto platform building the open financial future.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality results in a collaborative environment.
• Strong people leadership skills—coaching, clarity, and empowerment.
• Solid technical foundation, backend-focused, capable of design discussions and reviews.
• Strong individual contributor background—writes production-grade code and leads by example.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a cross-functional team of engineers delivering growth-critical systems and features.
• Collaborate daily with Product and Design to define scope and priorities.
• Provide technical guidance for sound architectural decisions and high-quality implementation.
• Maintain accountability, trust, and learning within the team across time zones.
• Stay hands-on in the codebase and write production-grade code.

Skills

People leadership

Backend design

Code reviews

AI-driven development

Distributed teams

TypeScript

Rust

Go

Python

Product mindset

Job description

Kraken’s Growth Foundations team seeks an Engineering Manager to lead a distributed group delivering high-impact growth features and AI-driven tools. You will mentor engineers, partner with product and design, and drive reliable, scalable solutions used by millions worldwide.

You will stay hands-on, guiding architecture, and modeling accountability while fostering autonomy and collaboration across time zones and geographies. Join a global crypto platform building the open financial future.