Senior Rust Engineer — High-Performance Trading Backend

Kraken; Sweden; On-site; SEK 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is building the future of open finance with a dedicated Pro team handling trading backend services, APIs, and high-performance distributed systems. You will design and implement Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences, collaborating with global engineers to deliver scalable, secure systems.

Bring 7+ years of software engineering experience, a security-first mindset, and deep knowledge of distributed architectures.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building financial trading focused products.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness.
• Ability to 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences with reliability, performance, and user impact.
• Write reusable, testable code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems without compromising safety or security.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work alongside hundreds of Rust engineers in a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.

Job description

Kraken is building the future of open finance with a dedicated Pro team handling trading backend services, APIs, and high-performance distributed systems. You will design and implement Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences, collaborating with global engineers to deliver scalable, secure systems.

Bring 7+ years of software engineering experience, a security-first mindset, and deep knowledge of distributed architectures.