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Software Engineer II - Frontend - Developer Platform
FrontendRemote — United Kingdom, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Ireland, Peru, Sweden, Colombia, Argentina, Romania, Cyprus, Switzerland, Portugal, Lithuania, South Africa, Czech Republic, Canada, Hungary, Mexico, Chile, Poland, Spain, Bulgaria
Published on 2026-11-12
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About this role
Improve the tools and delivery systems that help frontend engineers build, test, and ship web applications reliably. The role focuses on developer productivity, web performance, automated validation, and production delivery.
About the company
Kraken is a leading cryptocurrency exchange that provides a platform for buying, selling, and trading a diverse range of digital assets. The company focuses on compliance, security, and innovative financial solutions to serve both individual and institutional clients.
The team
Frontend and Web
Stack
ReactTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jspnpmESMGitLab CIContainers
What you'll do
- Improve build, type-checking, linting, and testing workflows locally and in CI.
- Evolve the monorepo, package management, and shared configuration.
- Simplify development environment setup and support parallel work by engineers and coding agents.
- Improve web delivery pipelines, preview environments, progressive rollouts, monitoring, and rollback.
- Strengthen automated and browser-based validation.
- Investigate web performance and observability issues with product and infrastructure teams.
- Lead tooling upgrades and migrations across teams.
What we're looking for
- Production web application experience and strong React knowledge.
- Strong TypeScript and JavaScript skills, including Node.js tooling and automation.
- Understanding of browser behavior, module systems, bundling, caching, and performance.
- Experience improving developer tooling, build systems, testing, or CI/CD.
- Ability to lead technical design, collaborate across teams, and own solutions through maintenance.
Nice to have
- Experience with large monorepos, shared packages, or multi-team tooling.
- Familiarity with pnpm, ESM, and modern build, linting, and test tools.
- Browser automation, end-to-end testing, performance profiling, or production observability experience.
- Hands-on experience with coding agents.
- Experience with GitLab CI, containers, or cloud infrastructure.
- Open-source contributions to frontend infrastructure or developer tools.