Senior Software Engineer Rust Backend Pro
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 design and implement Rust services and libraries for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will build scalable, secure, low-latency distributed systems, translate product requirements into technical solutions, debug issues across the stack, own systems end to end, and mentor other engineers.
Requirements
- Seven years of software-engineering experience
- Financial trading product development
- Rust network services or asynchronous programming
- Secure system design
- Operating system debugging
- Network debugging
- Distributed system
- RPC
- Kafka
- Event-driven system
- Product requirements analysis
- System ownership
- Mentorship
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Rust services and libraries
- Write reusable, testable, efficient code for revenue-critical systems
- Design resilient low-latency distributed systems
- Translate product requirements into technical solutions
- Debug issues across operating system, network, and application layers
- Own systems and libraries end to end
- Mentor other engineers
