Software Engineer II - Frontend - Developer Platform
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 make web development faster by improving builds, type checking, linting and tests. You will evolve the monorepo and shared configuration, simplify development environment setup, improve delivery pipelines and observability, and lead tooling upgrades and migrations across teams.
Requirements
- Solid experience building and maintaining production web applications with React and the modern JavaScript ecosystem
- Strong TypeScript and JavaScript skills, including Node.js for tooling and automation
- Understanding of browser behavior, module systems, bundling, caching, and performance
- Experience improving developer tooling, build systems, automated testing, or CI/CD pipelines
- Good judgment about reliability, security, and maintainability
- Ability to lead technical design and work with other teams
- Ownership of ambiguous problems
Responsibilities
- Improve builds, type checking, linting, and tests locally and in CI
- Evolve the monorepo, package management, and shared configuration
- Simplify development environment setup and support parallel work by engineers and coding agents
- Improve web delivery pipelines including preview environments, progressive rollouts, monitoring, and rollback
- Strengthen automated validation including browser-based checks
- Investigate web performance and improve observability with product and infrastructure teams
- Lead tooling upgrades and migrations across teams
- Own improvements from design through rollout and maintenance
