Senior Rust Backend Engineer for AI Fintech

Kraken; Argentina; Hybrid; ARS 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Consumer team. You will own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services powering trading and payments, building scalable systems with a strong focus on UX.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product leadership to shape roadmaps, and drive cross-team initiatives. An AI-first development approach and shipping valuable features are highly valued.

Qualifications

• 6+ years backend engineering with Rust across distributed services.
• Proven architectural ownership and production decisions.
• Strong product focus and measurable impact on customer outcomes.
• Mentoring and contributing patterns, standards, and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and delivery of consumer Rust backend services powering trading and payments.
• Turn ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable solutions.
• Own features end-to-end across backend and frontend impact.
• Collaborate with product leadership to shape roadmaps.
• Drive cross-team initiatives across Kraken trading, platform.
• Mentor engineers and establish patterns and standards.
• Leverage AI to accelerate engineering and validation.

Skills

Rust proficiency

Distributed systems design

Backend engineering

Kafka

RPC protocols

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Consumer team. You will own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services powering trading and payments, building scalable systems with a strong focus on UX.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product leadership to shape roadmaps, and drive cross-team initiatives. An AI-first development approach and shipping valuable features are highly valued.