Rust Software Engineer II - Low-Latency Trading Backend

Ink Foundation; Argentina; On-site; ARS 185,448,000 - 247,265,000; Full time

Job summary

Payward, the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks, seeks engineers to design and implement robust Rust and C++ services powering trading and crypto experiences. You will join a global team focusing on reliability, performance, and security.

Candidates should have 3+ years of software engineering experience, with strong Rust and C++ skills, and a security-first mindset.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building financial trading focused products.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Experience with modern C++, including performance-sensitive, low-latency systems.
• Security-first mindset in system design.
• Autonomous debugging across OS, network, and application layers.
• Understanding of distributed systems and technologies including RPC, Kafka, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust and C++ services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences with reliability and performance.
• Write reusable, testable code that scales across teams and revenue-critical systems.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture translating product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work with hundreds of Rust and C++ engineers in a high-performance, product-driven culture.

Skills

Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Low latency

Security minded

Debugging across stack

RPC protocols

Kafka

Tools

Kafka

RPC

Job description

Payward, the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks, seeks engineers to design and implement robust Rust and C++ services powering trading and crypto experiences. You will join a global team focusing on reliability, performance, and security.

Candidates should have 3+ years of software engineering experience, with strong Rust and C++ skills, and a security-first mindset.