Head of Engineering – Kraken Frontend Platform

Kraken

full-time

Posted on: 10/7/2025

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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About the role

Lead the engineering, architecture, and delivery of Kraken’s frontend foundations.
Own the teams building Blueprint (UI libraries), Flapjack (mobile SDK and mobile enablement), and Tako (design system / support-site frontend).
Work closely with the Design team to ensure consistency and accessibility across all experiences.
Unify frontend capabilities across web and mobile.
Elevate cross-cutting concerns like accessibility, performance, and developer experience.
Help define how Kraken scales its user experience across both consumer- and agent-facing applications.

8+ years of web-app or mobile-app engineering experience, including large-scale production systems
2+ years in a leadership/management role in frontend or platform engineering
Deep technical knowledge in some of our tech-stack React (or similar frameworks), Kotlin / native mobile, design systems, component libraries
Strong experience in architecting reusable libraries
Proven track record driving accessibility, performance, scalability across frontend and mobile systems
Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
Experience with CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and deployment pipelines for both web and mobile
Bringing together web and mobile disciplines identifying opportunities for cross-collaboration.
Hiring/recruitment to meet business needs.
Managing team performance.
Responsibility for ensuring frontend platform delivery and expectations.
Communication with both internal and external client stakeholders.

Benefits