Software Engineer II - Frontend - Developer Platform

In this role you help accelerate web development for Kraken’s platform by refining builds, tests, and tooling across a global monorepo. You will evolve shared configurations and documentation to enable faster, more reliable changes. You’ll own improvements from design through rollout, collaborating with product and infrastructure teams to boost performance, observability, and developer experience. This is an opportunity to shape frontend tooling at scale for a leading crypto platform and contribute to a resilient, open financial system.

• Improve builds, type checking, linting, and tests locally and in CI
• Evolve monorepo, package management, and shared configuration for reliable cross-application changes
• Simplify development environments and support parallel work with clear docs and minimal setup
• Improve web delivery pipelines, including preview environments, rollouts, production monitoring, and rollback
• Strengthen automated validation including browser-based checks before shipping
• Collaborate with product and infrastructure teams to enhance web performance and observability
• Lead tooling upgrades and migrations across teams balancing long-term improvements with practical shipping needs
• Own improvements from design through rollout and ongoing maintenance

• Strong React and modern JavaScript ecosystem experience
• Strong TypeScript and JavaScript skills; Node.js for tooling and automation
• Solid understanding of how web apps work: browser behavior, module systems, bundling, caching, performance
• Experience improving developer tooling, build systems, automated testing, or CI/CD pipelines
• Good judgment on reliability, security, maintainability, and when added complexity is worth it
• Ability to lead a technical design and collaborate with teams to get changes adopted
• Ownership mindset: solve ambiguous problems and keep solutions running for users

• leadership
• strong communication
• cross-team collaboration
• React
• TypeScript
• JavaScript