Rust Software Engineer — Open Finance Infrastructure

Kraken International; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Payward Services, the enterprise platform behind Kraken, seeks a Software Engineer to build robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will scale real-time systems, optimize latency, and work across teams to deliver high-impact features.

Join hundreds of Rust engineers in a high-performance engineering culture. You’ll own end-to-end solutions, apply secure-by-design principles, and contribute to a platform trusted by fintechs and financial institutions worldwide.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous Rust code.
• Security-first mindset in system design and robustness.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Rust services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences.
• Write reusable, high-performance code across services and teams.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture.
• Own end-to-end systems and libraries.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Networking / async

Security design

Debugging across stack

End-to-end ownership

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Event-driven systems

OS / Network debugging

Job description

Payward Services, the enterprise platform behind Kraken, seeks a Software Engineer to build robust Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will scale real-time systems, optimize latency, and work across teams to deliver high-impact features.

Join hundreds of Rust engineers in a high-performance engineering culture. You’ll own end-to-end solutions, apply secure-by-design principles, and contribute to a platform trusted by fintechs and financial institutions worldwide.