Software Engineer 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.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and document a React component library and design system, integrate components with a custom CMS, and deliver pixel-perfect responsive interfaces. You will establish frontend standards, optimize accessibility and performance, mentor engineers, and improve development processes.
Requirements
- Software development
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- CSS
- UI engineering
- Responsive design
- Design system
- Component library
- Webpack
- Vite
- API
- REST
- GraphQL
- Frontend testing
- Component testing
- CMS
- Web accessibility
- WCAG
- UX design
- English
Responsibilities
- Build and ship a component library and design system
- Build accessible reusable components and integrate them with a CMS
- Deliver pixel-perfect production UI implementations
- Establish frontend best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns
- Create component documentation and guidelines
- Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions
- Optimize component performance, accessibility, and developer experience
- Lead frontend process improvements