Senior Software Engineer Dev Platform
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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About the Role
You will build AI Gateway integrations, routing policies, budgets, rate limits, reporting, APIs, SDKs, and self-service tools. You will migrate LLM workloads, implement security controls and observability, operate reliable production features, and support internal users with documentation and debugging.
Requirements
- Backend engineering
- Platform engineering
- API
- Distributed system
- Rust
- Python
- TypeScript
- LLM API
- Observability
- CI/CD
- Container
- Kubernetes
- Cloud computing
- API design
Responsibilities
- Build and extend AI Gateway integrations and routing policies
- Design APIs, SDKs, and self-service developer tooling
- Migrate LLM workloads to the gateway
- Implement access control, key management, and audit logging
- Instrument latency, errors, token usage, and cost
- Own production features from design through operation
- Document and debug the platform for internal users
- Contribute to code review and engineering practices
Hiring Process
Job-related skills or work-style assessment, considered alongside experience and interviews.