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.

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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 Growth Foundations team is a new, dedicated team within Growth focused on establishing foundational frontend infrastructure, best practices, and component systems that serve Kraken's entire .com platform. We are building the standards and tools that enable all frontend development across the organization to move faster, maintain higher quality, and align with modern development practices. The team collaborates closely with Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Design to create a robust component library and establish best practices that set the gold standard for frontend development at Kraken. Our mission is to empower teams across the organization with well-architected, reusable components and clear guidelines that accelerate development while ensuring consistency, quality, and maintainability across all Kraken customer-facing experiences.

This is a fast-moving, delivery-focused team. You'll ship a steady stream of projects rather than settle into long-term platform maintenance, and the work is very UI-heavy.

 

The opportunity

• Design, build, and ship a comprehensive component library and design system using React.js and our custom-built CMS that serves as the foundation for all .com experiences

• Build and document reusable, accessible components and integrate with our custom CMS to enable dynamic content management and component configuration across the platform

• Deliver polished, pixel-perfect UI implementations that faithfully translate designs into production, working closely with Design to get every detail right

• Move quickly across multiple projects and initiatives, balancing speed of delivery with quality

• Establish and evolve frontend best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns that become the model for development across the organization