Kraken (Payward, Inc.) was founded in 2011 with the goal of facilitating the adoption of cryptocurrencies globally. The company operates a cryptocurrency exchange that allows users to trade digital assets securely, with a focus on operational transparency and security. Its primary customers include individual traders and institutional clients seeking reliable crypto trading services. Kraken's emphasis on security and compliance distinguishes it within the digital asset market.
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Mobile Design Engineer
~30 days ago
🇺🇸 United States
•🏠 Remote
•🎨 Frontend
•🚀 Senior-Level
•💰 $110k - $220k / year
•🕛 Full Time
Description
This is a mobile-first role on a React Native codebase. We work in Reanimated and Skia, bridge to native when we need to, and sweat the split between the JS thread and the UI thread.
You'll own the feel of the Kraken app: the half-second a trade confirms, the way a chart loads, how a sheet rises from the bottom of the screen and lands where it physically should. On a product where people move their savings, moments like that build trust.
Own the motion and interaction layer of the Kraken app. Easing, springs, gestures, transitions, haptics, sound. The perceptual surface from cold start to confirmation.
Evolve the mobile design system. You'll own the components other engineers reach for (gesture handlers, transition primitives, animated containers, motion tokens) and the standards that govern them.
Partner closely with product designers, challenging and elevating motion and interaction design from concept through implementation
Profile and optimise rendering performance, especially on lower-end Android devices where frame drops are unforgivable
Contribute to architectural decisions that affect UI responsiveness: state management, render cycles, and data flow into the view layer
Raise the bar for what 'great' means across the mobile org by review, by example, and by writing the patterns that make doing the right thing easier than doing the wrong thing.
Requirements
A portfolio. A demo reel, a personal site, a GitHub of interaction sketches, screen captures of work you've shipped that you're proud of.
Deep React Native fluency. You know Reanimated well enough to argue with people about it. You've fought gesture handlers. You've profiled JS thread vs. UI thread work and won. You can read a frame timeline and tell us where the time went.
Taste in motion. You have opinions about easing curves. You notice when a spring is over-damped. You can articulate why a transition feels wrong before you know how to fix it.
Product judgment. You can take a half-formed brief, find the actual problem inside it, and ship something better than what anyone thought to ask for. You shape what the spec should have been rather than wait for it to arrive.
AI tools as part of how you work. Cursor, Copilot, Claude, whatever your stack is. You use them to move faster on the parts that aren't the craft so you can spend longer on the parts that are.
Written and verbal English. We're globally distributed and live in docs and async threads.
React Native Skia, shader work, or custom canvas-based rendering for non-standard UI. (Nice to have)
Real native experience. Enough Swift or Kotlin to write a bridge module, and enough platform knowledge to know when one's the right call. (Nice to have)
A motion library, design-system contribution, or interaction primitive set that other engineers picked up and used. (Nice to have)
A visual or motion design background. You prototype in Figma, After Effects, or on paper before (or instead of) writing code. (Nice to have)
High-stakes product experience in fintech, trading, health, or anywhere UI precision is load-bearing. (Nice to have)
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•🏠 Remote
•🎨 Frontend
•🚀 Senior-Level
•🕛 Full Time
Mobile Design Engineer responsible for motion and interaction on Kraken's React Native app using Reanimated and Skia. You'll own animation, performance profiling, and the mobile design system for a global trading app.
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•🏠 Remote
•🎨 Frontend
•⚙️ Mid-Level
•🕛 Full Time
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•🏠 Remote
•🎨 Frontend
•👑 Lead-Level
•🕛 Full Time
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•🏠 Remote
•🎨 Frontend
•👑 Lead-Level
•🕛 Full Time
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