Software Engineer II Backend Payments
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 robust services and libraries for payments integration. You will write reusable and efficient backend code, collaborate with product, design, and frontend engineering partners on distributed-system features, and work closely with crypto-native engineers.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Backend development
- Systems programming language
- Rust
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Security-first system design
- Cross-stack debugging
- Distributed systems
- RPC protocols
- Kafka
- Event-driven systems
Responsibilities
- Design and implement services and libraries for payment integration
- Write reusable, testable, efficient code
- Collaborate with product, design, and frontend engineering partners on feature integration
- Partner with crypto-native engineers