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Senior Frontend Engineer - NFT (React)

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USD 80k-200k/year
2 years ago

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Senior Frontend Engineer - NFT (React) Remote Engineering – Frontend Remote Full-time Apply for this job About Kraken As one of the largest and most trusted digital asset platforms globally, we are empowering people to experience the life-changing potential of crypto. Trusted by over 8 million consumer and pro traders, institutions, and authorities worldwide - our unique combination of products, services, and global expertise is helping tip the scales towards mass crypto adoption. But we’re only just getting started. We want to be pioneers in crypto and add value to the everyday lives of billions. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Join us to bring crypto to the world. To ensure Kraken is the right fit for you, please ensure you read Kraken Culture Explained to find out more about us! About the Team Kraken is building a marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NTFs. An NFT is a digital asset that represents collectables like art, music, in-game items, and videos. They’re unique, scarce, liquid, and usable across platforms. We aim to shape the future of marketplaces to empower creators and collectors. Discover, buy, sell, and exchange NFTs on the most secure platform in the industry. About the Role Senior Software Engineer is the first inflection point where leadership starts to feature as a defining requirement: Your job is no longer only to get things done; it’s to guide others to help them deliver value, too. You should have a significant amount of professional experience within the industry and a demonstrable history of shipping large projects that have a significant impact to the business during your tenure at other companies. At this level, your total mastery of foundational computer and software engineering concepts is a given and experience mentoring more junior engineers and pitching in on interviewing is a must. Senior Software Engineer is the first level where we expect you to do more than merely complete the work assigned to you: At Senior Software Engineer, you should start to create your work by understanding the problems your team faces and proposing, implementing, and delivering solutions to them. You should deeply understand all technologies used by the team, you will own the production operation and monitoring of the systems within your domain, mentors others to accelerate their career-growth, adjusts the team processes by listening to feedback and guiding the team through the changes whilst regularly making an impact on your whole team. NFT is one of hottest topics in the cryptocurrency industry. In this role, you will be working closely with product, design, and the rest of engineering to craft phenomenal buyer, seller, and creator experiences with our team of subject matter experts!  Responsibilities
    • Collaborate with designers and product managers to understand business needs
    • Contribute to different aspects of the front-end development lifecycle from the writeup of technical specifications in the form of RFCs, to feature development and testing
    • Own, develop and maintain frontend components that power the NFT marketplace
    • Integrating 3rd party APIs and leveraging Kraken’s backend infrastructure
    • Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
    • Coordinating with teams responsible for other layers of the product infrastructureLead cross-team projects by structuring work and managing stakeholder’s expectations, providing status updates, flagging risks and blockers proactively
    • Contribute and advocate engineering best practices, including, but not limited to, code reviews, addressing technical debt and improvements on code quality and overall efficiency
        • Basic Qualifications
            • 6+ years of full-time professional engineering experience
            • Deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, TypeScript, React (or other UI libraries), client side state management solutions and basic webmobile rendering performance techniques
            • Experience building and maintaining production quality applications using React or React Native
            • Clear passion for both Software Engineering and Crypto
                • Preferred Qualifications
                    • 6+ years of full-time engineering experience within a large technology organization or fast growing startup
                    • Have led multiple high profile projects within your previous positions successfully
                    • Experience working with GraphQL, RESTful APIs and WebSockets
                    • Experience working with multi-threaded code architectures (WebWorkers)
                    • Experience both mentoring junior engineers and interviewing for Software Engineers
                    • Deep understanding of the cryptocurrency industry and a vision of what direction its heading in
                    • Experience working in Fintech, Web3 or a related field
                    • Familiarity with NFT standards and blockchain technology
                        • Location Tagging: #US #EU  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.  Stay in the know Kraken Culture Explained Follow us on Twitter Catch up on our blog Follow us on LinkedIn Apply for this job

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