Software Engineer II - High-Performance Trading Backends

Kraken; Colombia; On-site; COP 382,226,000 - 573,340,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is hiring for a developer role focused on building robust Rust and C++ services that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences. The team emphasizes reliability, performance, and secure design across global, distributed backends.

Candidates should have 3+ years in software engineering, experience with financial trading products, and strong Rust and C++ skills for high-performance services. You will join a world-wide engineering culture that values autonomy and end-to-end ownership.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building financial trading focused products.
• Proficiency in Rust for network services or asynchronous code.
• Experience with modern C++, including low-latency systems.
• Security-first mindset in system design.
• Ability to autonomously debug across OS, network, and app layers.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and RPC, Kafka, and event-driven architectures.
• Ability to collaborate with product teams to gather requirements and constraints.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust and C++ services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences.
• Write reusable, fast, and scalable code for revenue-critical systems.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed architectures to deliver resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work with a global team of Rust and C++ engineers in an agile environment.

Skills

Software engineering

Rust asynchronous

C++ low-latency

Distributed systems

Kafka

RPC protocols

Security-minded design

Debug across stack

Tools

Kafka

RPC (gRPC, JSON-RPC)

Job description

Kraken is hiring for a developer role focused on building robust Rust and C++ services that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences. The team emphasizes reliability, performance, and secure design across global, distributed backends.

Candidates should have 3+ years in software engineering, experience with financial trading products, and strong Rust and C++ skills for high-performance services. You will join a world-wide engineering culture that values autonomy and end-to-end ownership.