Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Payward Services

Favia; Brasil; Remoto; BRL 658.000 - 987.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Payward Services is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and implement robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will contribute to scalable, low-latency systems while upholding security and reliability across the platform.

Join a team of engineers focusing on high performance, autonomy, and mentorship, shaping the technical culture and driving end-to-end ownership of critical services.

Competenze

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Security-first mindset during system design.
• Autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems.
• Collaborate with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems.
• Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries.
• Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture.

Mansioni

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences.
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work alongside Rust engineers to maintain a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.

Conoscenze

Rust programming

Distributed systems

Security-minded design

End-to-end ownership

Debugging across stack

RPC protocols

Mentorship

Kafka experience

Strumenti

Kafka

RPC protocols

Event-driven architectures

Descrizione del lavoro

The Team

Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Payward Services you'll build and scale the systems that make this platform work under the hood, from real-time coordination across services to the infrastructure enterprise partners depend on to move money and assets safely, at scale, every day. We’re looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity, move quickly with ownership, and care deeply about creating robust solutions.

The opportunity

• 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 alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.

What you bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience

• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust

• Have a security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness

• Demonstrate the ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)

• Apply a solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems, to design scalable solutions

• Collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems

• Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries

• Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture

Nice to haves

• Experience building B2B focused products, ideally in the fintech or crypto space

Unless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Our commitment

We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews, and are not the sole basis for any employment decision.

As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.