Engineering Manager – Growth Product

kraken.com; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a growth-focused engineering leader to guide a cross-functional team building acquisition, activation, and retention features. You will mentor engineers, partner with product and design, and drive measurable improvements in signup, identity-verification flows, and activation metrics.

You will help engineers make pragmatic technical decisions, maintain delivery discipline, and foster a culture of accountability across distributed teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality work collaboratively.
• Strong people leadership, including coaching, setting direction, and empowering engineers.
• A solid technical foundation and ability to guide pragmatic engineering decisions.
• Familiarity with modern programming languages or stacks such as React, React Native, Rust, TypeScript, Go, or Node.js.
• Product judgment and interest in how engineering work affects users and key metrics.
• Clear communication and organization, plus experience working in distributed, remote-first teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support engineers delivering growth-critical systems and user-facing features.
• Partner with product and design to set scope, priorities, and delivery plans.
• Keep projects on track through clear expectations, realistic estimates, and transparent stakeholder communication.
• Provide technical context for architecture and implementation decisions, including design discussions and code reviews.
• Build a team culture of accountability, trust, learning, and growing autonomy.
• Improve team processes and coordination across time zones, and align practices with other engineering leaders.

Skills

People leadership

Distributed, remote-first teams

Product-minded engineering

React

React Native

Rust

TypeScript

Go

Node.js

Job description

Role overview

Lead a cross-functional engineering team building growth-focused product experiences, including marketing funnels, signup and identity-verification flows, and features that help users activate and return. You will work with product and design partners to deliver measurable improvements in acquisition, activation, and retention, while helping engineers make sound technical decisions and do their best work.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and support engineers delivering growth-critical systems and user-facing features.
• Partner with product and design to set scope, priorities, and delivery plans.
• Keep projects on track through clear expectations, realistic estimates, and transparent stakeholder communication.
• Provide technical context for architecture and implementation decisions, including design discussions and code reviews.
• Build a team culture of accountability, trust, learning, and growing autonomy.
• Improve team processes and coordination across time zones, and align practices with other engineering leaders.

Requirements

• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality work collaboratively.
• Strong people leadership, including coaching, setting direction, and empowering engineers.
• A solid technical foundation and ability to guide pragmatic engineering decisions.
• Familiarity with modern programming languages or stacks such as React, React Native, Rust, TypeScript, Go, or Node.js.
• Product judgment and interest in how engineering work affects users and key metrics.
• Clear communication and organization, plus experience working in distributed, remote-first teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with analytics, experimentation, or growth tools.
• Experience scaling teams or processes, or delivering user-facing product engineering from idea to launch.