Senior Rust Engineer for Open Finance Platform

Kraken; Mexico; On-site; PHP 8,636,643 - 14,188,771; Full time

Job summary

Kraken Payward Services is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale Rust-based services that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will own end-to-end solutions across real-time coordination and low-latency infrastructure, working with a large team of Rust engineers.

You will translate product needs into robust, secure system designs, mentor peers, and help shape the technical culture as you ship revenue-critical software that handles money and assets at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous Rust.
• Have a security‑first mindset during system design to ensure robustness.
• Demonstrate 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Rust

Async

Distributed systems

RPC

Kafka

Mentorship

Job description

Kraken Payward Services is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale Rust-based services that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will own end-to-end solutions across real-time coordination and low-latency infrastructure, working with a large team of Rust engineers.

You will translate product needs into robust, secure system designs, mentor peers, and help shape the technical culture as you ship revenue-critical software that handles money and assets at scale.