Kraken - Mobile UI/Design Engineer

• Deep, demonstrable experience building polished mobile interfaces in React Native — you know Reanimated well, you've fought with gesture handlers, and you've profiled JS thread vs UI thread performance and won • A trained eye for interaction design — you notice when an easing curve is wrong, you have opinions about spring physics, and you understand that 60fps isn't a target, it's a constraint • A portfolio or demo reel of shipped work is a hard requirement — a personal site, video walkthrough, GitHub interaction demos, or screen captures of work you're proud of. If we can't see your craft, we can't evaluate it • A portfolio or demo reel of shipped work is a hard requirement • Experience with modern AI development tooling (Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as a natural part of how you build — not as a novelty, but as a multiplier • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English • Experience with React Native Skia, custom shader work, or canvas-based rendering for non-standard UI • Some native platform knowledge (Swift/Kotlin) for when you need to drop below the RN abstraction — bridging, native modules, platform-specific behaviour • You've built interaction patterns that other engineers adopted — shared animation libraries, gesture primitives, motion design systems • Background in or affinity for visual/motion design — maybe you prototype in Figma or After Effects before you write code, maybe you sketch interaction flows on paper. Either way, you think visually • Experience in high-stakes product domains (fintech, health, trading) where UI precision affects user trust • Strong opinions, loosely held — you push back on designs that won't translate well to mobile and advocate for the user's experience, but you also know when to ship and iterate • Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis. • Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution. • We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. • Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. 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! • We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments are designed to evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Assessment results are considered alongside other relevant information, such as experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.