Engineering Manager – Growth Product
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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About the Role
You will lead, mentor and support a cross-functional team of engineers building growth-critical systems. You will collaborate daily with Product and Design on scope and priorities, keep projects moving with clear expectations, provide technical guidance, and improve team processes across time zones.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering teams
- Strong people leadership skills
- Solid technical foundation for design discussions and code reviews
- Familiarity with modern languages such as React, React Native, Rust, TypeScript, Go or Node.js
- Product mindset
- Clear communication and organizational skills
- Experience in distributed, remote-first teams
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor and support a team of engineers
- Collaborate with Product and Design to define scope and priorities
- Maintain clear expectations, estimates and stakeholder communication
- Provide technical guidance on architecture and implementation
- Foster accountability, trust and learning
- Improve team processes and collaboration across time zones
- Partner with other engineering leaders on best practices