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.
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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 customer-facing Rust backend services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. You will own features from problem definition through launch, collaborate on product requirements and infrastructure integration, improve solutions autonomously, and use AI to accelerate development and validate implementations.
Requirements
- Rust
- Backend engineering
- Network services
- Asynchronous programming
- Distributed systems design
- RPC protocols
- Kafka
- Event-driven architecture
- Product engineering
- Product metrics
- AI-assisted development
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Security-first system design
- Cross-stack debugging
Responsibilities
- Design and implement customer-facing Rust backend services
- Own features end-to-end from product problem through launch
- Collaborate with product teams on customer requirements and infrastructure integration
- Propose and drive resilient product solutions
- Use AI to accelerate development and validate implementations