Senior Software Engineer Rust Consumer
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.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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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 own the architecture and delivery of Rust backend services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will take ambiguous problems through launch and measurement, shape product roadmaps, lead cross-team initiatives, mentor engineers, review designs, and use AI-assisted engineering practices.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience
- Deep Rust proficiency across network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design
- Experience with RPC protocols, Kafka, and event-driven architectures
- Experience making production architectural decisions
- Product engineering experience from problem definition through user impact
- Experience mentoring, reviewing designs, writing technical documentation, or setting standards
- Experience driving work across teams or organizations
- AI-first development approach
- End-to-end ownership across backend and frontend boundaries
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services
- Take multi-quarter problems from concept to shipped and measured outcomes
- Own features end to end, including customer experience and frontend impact
- Partner with product leadership to shape product roadmaps
- Drive initiatives across trading infrastructure, platform, and product teams
- Mentor engineers, review designs, and establish engineering standards
- Use and help define effective AI-assisted engineering practices