Software Engineer II Rust 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.
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 design and implement Rust and C++ services and libraries for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will write scalable, testable code, help shape distributed-systems architecture, and translate product requirements into resilient low-latency solutions.
Requirements
- Software engineering
- Financial trading
- Rust
- Network service
- Asynchronous programming
- C++
- Low-latency system
- Security
- Debugging
- Operating system
- Network
- Distributed system
- RPC
- Kafka
- Event-driven system
- Product requirements
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Rust and C++ services and libraries
- Write reusable, testable, efficient code for revenue-critical systems
- Collaborate on distributed-systems architecture
- Translate product requirements into resilient low-latency solutions
- Contribute to high-performance engineering practices
