Engineering Manager – Growth Foundations

Company: Kraken
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Overview

As Engineering Manager in Growth Foundations, you lead a cross-functional engineering team delivering growth-critical systems and tools. You stay hands-on, writing production-grade code while guiding architecture and delivery. You collaborate with Product and Design to align scope and priorities, and you scale impact across time zones. You shape a culture of accountability, learning, and high craftsmanship, driving measurable growth and user engagement at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, mentor, and support a cross-functional engineering team 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 with clear expectations, realistic estimates, and transparent stakeholder communication
  • Provide technical guidance to help engineers make sound architectural and implementation decisions
  • Foster accountability, trust, and learning to grow team impact and autonomy
  • Improve team processes and collaboration across time zones
  • Partner with other engineering leaders to ensure consistency and best practices across Growth
  • Leverage AI tooling daily to boost personal and team productivity
  • Stay hands-on in the codebase, writing production-grade code and setting quality benchmarks

Key requirements

  • Experience leading engineering teams and delivering high-quality results in a collaborative environment
  • Strong people leadership skills with coaching, clarity, and empowerment
  • Solid technical foundation on the backend; participate in design discussions and code reviews
  • Strong individual contributor background; write production-grade code and lead by example
  • High proficiency in modern AI-driven development; daily use of AI to boost productivity
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, Rust, Go, Python, or similar languages
  • Product mindset with focus on user impact and key metrics
  • Clear communication and organizational skills aligning engineering with business goals
  • Experience working in distributed, remote-first teams
  • coaching and mentorship
  • clarity in communication
  • empowerment and autonomy
  • backend development
  • design discussions and code reviews
  • production-grade coding and reliability

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Posted: October 1st, 2026