Senior Software Engineer – Rust
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Senior Rust engineer shaping Kraken’s consumer crypto applications. Building customer-facing backend services for trading, payments, and digital-asset experiences.
Responsibilities:
- Set the technical direction for Kraken Consumer applications
- Own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences
- Make architectural decisions for long-lived systems
- Take ambiguous, multi-quarter problems from concept to shipped and measured outcomes
- Break down complex work so teammates can work in parallel
- Own features end-to-end, including customer experience, frontend impact, and product objectives
- Partner with product leadership to shape roadmaps and product direction
- Own product outcomes and metrics
- Drive cross-team initiatives involving trading infrastructure, platform, and other product teams
- Build relationships and technical alignment across teams
- Mentor mid-level engineers
- Review designs before implementation
- Unblock teammates and establish reusable engineering patterns and standards
- Use AI to amplify engineering scope and speed
- Help define effective AI-assisted engineering practices
Requirements:
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience
- Deep Rust proficiency across network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design
- Experience with RPC protocols, Kafka, and event-driven architectures
- Track record of owning production systems and making architectural decisions
- Product engineering experience from problem through launch and user impact
- Experience influencing product direction and metrics
- Demonstrated impact through mentoring, design reviews, technical writing, or team standards
- Experience driving work across teams or organizations
- AI-first development approach with meaningful use of AI for coding, unfamiliar codebases, technical boundaries, and implementation validation
- Ownership mindset and ability to work across backend/frontend boundaries
- Full-stack experience including React/TypeScript or other frontend frameworks is a nice-to-have
- Cryptocurrency or blockchain domain knowledge is a nice-to-have
- Experience building and scaling consumer-focused products is a nice-to-have
- Experience introducing AI tooling or workflows to an engineering team is a nice-to-have
Benefits:
- Opportunity to work at Payward/Kraken, a globally accessible open-finance and crypto infrastructure company
- Dogfooding Kraken products is required once employed
- Equal opportunity employment and consideration of qualified applicants with criminal histories
- Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates
- Ongoing applications unless a specific deadline is stated
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