Senior Rust Engineer: Trading Backend & FinTech Systems

Kraken; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,938,000 - 2,907,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a senior Rust engineer to design and implement robust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will contribute to low-latency, scalable systems and collaborate with hundreds of engineers worldwide.

The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and a security-first mindset, with a focus on distributed architectures, RPC, Kafka, and event-driven design.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building financial trading focused products.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Have a security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness.
• Demonstrate the 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 powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences.
• Write reusable, testable, and efficient code that scales across teams and revenue-critical systems.
• Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture to translate product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.
• Work with hundreds of Rust engineers in a high-performance, product-driven culture.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Mentorship

Ownership

Networking

Tools

Kafka

RPC protocols

Event-Driven Systems

Job description

Kraken is seeking a senior Rust engineer to design and implement robust services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will contribute to low-latency, scalable systems and collaborate with hundreds of engineers worldwide.

The role emphasizes ownership, mentorship, and a security-first mindset, with a focus on distributed architectures, RPC, Kafka, and event-driven design.