Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer

The role

This person will design and implement customer-facing Rust backend services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. They will own features end-to-end and collaborate with product teams to integrate with Kraken's trading infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design and implement customer-facing Rust backend services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences
• Own features end-to-end from problem to implementation and launch
• Collaborate with product teams to understand customer requirements
• Integrate with Kraken's trading infrastructure
• Propose improvements and drive solutions autonomously
• Translate evolving product requirements into resilient solutions
• Use AI extensively to amplify scope and speed

Required qualifications

• Rust/backend engineer with proficiency in network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design (RPC protocols, Kafka, event-driven architectures)
• Product engineering mindset
• AI-first development approach
• Ownership mindset with collaborative spirit
• Security-first approach to system design
• Ability to autonomously debug across the stack (OS, network, application)
• Openness to how the engineering profession is evolving because of AI

Nice to have

• Full-stack experience including React/TypeScript or other frontend frameworks
• Cryptocurrency or blockchain domain knowledge
• Experience building products at consumer-focused technology companies

Before you apply

• We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process

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.