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About the Role

This role is for applicants on EMEA timezones, if you are on North/South American timezones please apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/kraken/bf07855d-0214-4d45-b0ac-ae9520a6e01f

We’re looking for exceptional Senior Frontend Engineers to work on our React based web applications.

You’ll be joining a fully remote team within the Kraken Engineering department and your success on this team will be measured by your contributions to its pursuit of perfection both from a product feature and engineering architecture perspective, thus a strong team player mindset is required. You must possess excellent technical knowledge and the ability to accomplish amazing amounts of important work, seek what is best for Kraken and its success, create new and useful ideas, make time to help colleagues, challenge prevailing assumptions and suggest better approaches, admit mistakes freely and openly, treat people with respect even if you’re in disagreement with them, and above all provide frequent candid corrective feedback to your teammates.

At Kraken we strongly believe that high performance teams filled with stunning colleagues is a core foundation of success in software development and we require all our engineers to embody that mindset.

Requirements

4+ years of professional experience working with React
6+ years of professional software development experience
Firm grasp of the JavaScript language and its nuances, including ES6+ syntax and the TypeScript superset
Excellent knowledge of React and Next.js
Excellent knowledge of modern state management libraries (Flux pattern)
Experience both with REST and Websocket based web services
Experience building framework and platform agnostic packages
Experience working on complex enterprise systems, or proven ability to successfully deliver a greenfield product
Ability to take extreme ownership over your work
Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
Forensic attention to detail
You’re passionate about software development... it’s not just your career, it’s your hobby
You’re constantly striving to learn new things and improve. You follow industry news, regularly tinker with new technologies, and read books and blogs to keep your skills current

Nice to have

Knowledge of and passion for cryptocurrency
Knowledge of XState (or similar)
Knowledge of Web Workers
Knowledge of the Actor pattern and how it can be used on the web
Knowledge of React Native
Knowledge of Rust

Location Tagging: #EU #LI-Remote #LI-DD2

We’re powered by people from around the world with their own unique and diverse experiences. We value all Krakenites and their talents, contributions, and perspectives, regardless of their background. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

As an equal opportunity employer we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Senior Frontend Engineer - React (EMEA)

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