Engineering Manager Growth Foundations
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead, mentor, and support engineers building growth-critical systems, platforms, and tools. You will collaborate with Product and Design on scope and priorities, guide technical and architectural decisions, improve processes across time zones, and write production-grade code. You will use AI tooling to improve personal and team productivity.
Requirements
- Engineering leadership
- People leadership
- Backend development
- Software architecture
- Code review
- AI-driven development
- Automation
- TypeScript
- Rust
- Go
- Python
- Product management
- Communication
- Distributed team
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and support engineers delivering growth-critical systems and features
- Collaborate with Product and Design to define scope and priorities
- Maintain project expectations, estimates, and stakeholder communication
- Provide technical and architectural guidance
- Improve team processes and collaboration across time zones
- Partner with engineering leaders on consistent practices
- Use AI tooling to improve productivity
- Write production-grade code
Benefits
- Equity
- Bonus program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
Hiring Process
May include job-related skills or work-style assessments alongside experience and interviews.
