Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer

Romania, Remote. Posted 10 days ago

The role

This person will own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. They will set technical direction for Consumer applications and partner with product leadership to shape roadmaps.

What you will do

Own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services
Take ambiguous, multi-quarter problems from concept to shipped and measured
Own features end-to-end including customer experience and frontend impact
Partner with product leadership to shape the roadmap for a product area
Drive initiatives that cross team boundaries
Mentor mid-level engineers and review designs
Use AI extensively to amplify scope and speed

Required qualifications

6+ years of backend engineering experience
Deep Rust proficiency across network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design (RPC protocols, Kafka, event-driven architectures)
Track record of owning systems and making architectural decisions in production
Product engineering mindset with understanding of customer experience and product metrics
Demonstrated impact through mentoring, design review, technical writing, or setting standards
Experience driving work that spans teams or orgs
AI-first development approach
Ownership mindset with collaborative spirit

Nice to have

Full-stack experience including React/TypeScript or other frontend frameworks
Cryptocurrency or blockchain domain knowledge
Experience building and scaling products at consumer-focused technology companies
Experience introducing AI tooling or workflows to an engineering team

Before you apply

Applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance or graduation
Candidates may be asked to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments

About the company

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Kraken is a crypto platform trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions.