Senior Rust Engineer — Build AI-Driven Fintech Backends

Kraken; Colombia; Hybrid; COP 388,387,000 - 582,581,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken, a leading crypto platform, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Consumer team to own architecture and delivery of Rust backend services powering trading and payments. You will guide complex, multi-quarter problems to shipping, end-to-end features, and collaborate with product leadership to shape the roadmap.

Expect mentoring, standards, and AI-assisted engineering to accelerate impact. You will contribute to a mass-market experience, driving performance, reliability, and scalable

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience with Rust in distributed systems.
• Proven track record making architectural decisions in production.
• Product engineering mindset with end-to-end ownership of features.
• Mentoring, design reviews, and setting engineering standards.
• Experience driving multi-team alignment and roadmap influence.
• AI-first mindset with practical AI-enabled coding and validation.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust services for trading, payments, and crypto.
• Break down ambiguous, multi-quarter problems into shippable work.
• Own features end-to-end across frontend/backend, improving customer experience.
• Collaborate with product to shape roadmaps and metrics.
• Cross-team initiatives with trading infra and platform teams.
• Mentor engineers and establish patterns that ease future work.
• Leverage AI to accelerate scope and quality of engineering.

Skills

Backend Rust

Architectural decisions

Product mindset

Mentoring

Cross-team collaboration

AI-first development

Ownership of features

Tools

Rust

Kafka

RPC

Job description

Kraken, a leading crypto platform, seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Consumer team to own architecture and delivery of Rust backend services powering trading and payments. You will guide complex, multi-quarter problems to shipping, end-to-end features, and collaborate with product leadership to shape the roadmap.

Expect mentoring, standards, and AI-assisted engineering to accelerate impact. You will contribute to a mass-market experience, driving performance, reliability, and scalable