Software Engineer II - Frontend - Developer Platform

About the Role

BUILDING THE FUTURE OF OPEN FINANCE Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system. THE TEAM Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.   THE OPPORTUNITY - Make web development faster by improving builds, type checking, linting, and tests, both locally and in CI - Evolve our monorepo, package management, and shared configuration so changes across applications and libraries are straightforward and reliable - Simplify development environment setup and support parallel work by engineers and coding agents, with clear documentation and tools that work with minimal configuration - Improve web delivery pipelines, including preview environments, progressive rollouts, production monitoring, and reliable rollback - Strengthen automated validation, including browser-based checks that help engineers and agents verify changes before they ship - Work with product and infrastructure teams to investigate web performance, improve observability, and address problems across application code, tooling, and delivery - Lead tooling upgrades and migrations across teams, balancing long-term improvements with the practical needs of engineers shipping products - Own improvements from design through rollout and ongoing maintenance, staying close to the people using what you build     WHAT YOU BRING - Solid experience building and maintaining production web applications, with a strong understanding of React and the modern JavaScript ecosystem - Strong TypeScript and Ja

Key Responsibilities

• Make web development faster by improving builds, type checking, linting, and tests, both locally and in CI
• Evolve our monorepo, package management, and shared configuration so changes across applications and libraries are straightforward and reliable
• Simplify development environment setup and support parallel work by engineers and coding agents, with clear documentation and tools that work with minimal configuration
• Improve web delivery pipelines, including preview environments, progressive rollouts, production monitoring, and reliable rollback
• Strengthen automated validation, including browser-based checks that help engineers and agents verify changes before they ship
• Work with product and infrastructure teams to investigate web performance, improve observability, and address problems across application code, tooling, and delivery

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving foundations, knowledge of modern engineering practices, and interest in technology systems.

Perks & Benefits

• Official mentor support
• verified hiring timeline
• and career progression.