Senior Rust Engineer — Real-Time FinTech Infrastructure

Kraken; Peru (IL); Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Payward Services, the unit behind Kraken, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You’ll own components end-to-end, emphasize security, and optimize for low latency in a high-visibility, product-driven environment.

You will collaborate with hundreds of Rust engineers, translate evolving requirements into robust systems, and mentor teammates while advancing an open, high-performance infrastructure platform that moves

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in Rust and asynchronous network services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and security.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences.
• Write reusable, efficient code that scales across teams and systems.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed architectures and low-latency solutions.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to shaping technical culture.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

RPC protocols

Kafka

Security-first design

End-to-end ownership

Mentorship

OS/network debugging

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Payward Services, the unit behind Kraken, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale Rust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You’ll own components end-to-end, emphasize security, and optimize for low latency in a high-visibility, product-driven environment.

You will collaborate with hundreds of Rust engineers, translate evolving requirements into robust systems, and mentor teammates while advancing an open, high-performance infrastructure platform that moves