Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Backend - Pro

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Pro team at Kraken (part of Payward), you design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You work on revenue-critical systems for spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, collaborating with hundreds of experienced Rust engineers across a globally distributed team.

What you'll do

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences with a focus on reliability, performance, and user impact
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems without compromising safety or security
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions
• Work on trading backend services including the matching engine, market data gateways, internal and external APIs, and various other trading services
• Provide mentorship to other engineers and contribute to defining technical culture

What you bring

• 7+ years of software engineering experience
• Experience building financial trading focused products
• Proficiency in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
• A security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness
• The ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)
• A solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems
• The ability to collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for system design
• Complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries

About Kraken

Kraken, founded in 2011, is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions. It is part of Payward, which operates a suite of modern financial infrastructure platforms including NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks.