Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Backend - Pro

The role

You will design and implement robust Rust services and libraries for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture and write efficient code for revenue-critical systems.

What you will do

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture
• Translate product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions
• Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
• Provide mentorship to other engineers

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building financial trading focused products
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
• Security-first mindset during system design
• Ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems

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.