Senior Software Engineer – Rust

• 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

• 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

• 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