Senior Rust Engineer – Real-Time FinTech Infrastructure

Kraken; Colombia; On-site; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken, the Payward group, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale Rust-based services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will work within a large, distributed systems architecture and collaborate with many Rust engineers to deliver robust, low-latency solutions across the platform.

We value a security‑first mindset, ownership, and the ability to diagnose issues across the stack. Join a high‑performance, product‑driven culture focused on reliability and scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness.
• Autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and technologies (RPC, Kafka, event-driven).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences with reliability and performance.
• Write reusable, testable code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture to deliver resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work with hundreds of Rust engineers to foster a high-performance engineering culture.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Debugging across stack

Security-first design

Ownership & mentorship

Job description

Kraken, the Payward group, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale Rust-based services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will work within a large, distributed systems architecture and collaborate with many Rust engineers to deliver robust, low-latency solutions across the platform.

We value a security‑first mindset, ownership, and the ability to diagnose issues across the stack. Join a high‑performance, product‑driven culture focused on reliability and scale.