Software Engineer - Rust - Payward Services
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
Funding history
Investors
Projects
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries for trading, payments, and crypto experiences. Build reusable and efficient code, contribute to distributed systems architecture, translate product requirements into resilient low-latency solutions, and own systems and libraries end to end.
Requirements
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Proficiency writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
- Security-first mindset during system design
- Ability to autonomously debug issues across the OS, network, and application stack
- Understanding of distributed systems, RPC protocols, Kafka, and event-driven systems
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product teams
- End-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries
- Write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Contribute to distributed systems architecture
- Translate product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions
- Debug issues across the operating system, network, and application stack
- Collaborate with product teams
- Take end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
Hiring Process
Candidates may complete job-related skills or work-style assessments. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews and are not the sole basis for employment decisions.