Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Backend - Consumer

August 14

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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Crypto • Finance • Fintech

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange is a cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the buying and selling of over 200 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and many others. Founded in 2011, Kraken provides a comprehensive suite of features for both beginner and advanced traders, such as advanced trading interfaces and margin trading. The platform emphasizes industry-leading security, deep liquidity, and 24/7 customer support, making it a trusted choice for users worldwide. Kraken caters to individual investors as well as institutional clients, offering services like OTC trading and custody. The company is committed to transparency with its proof of reserves and mission-driven values. Kraken operates globally, supporting clients in over 190 countries, with a quarterly trading volume exceeding $207 billion. However, users are advised of the high risk of crypto investments and the lack of regulation in some jurisdictions.

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

📋 Description

• Kraken is a fully remote company with Krakenites in 70+ countries and 50 languages. • Focus on building premium crypto products for traders, institutions, and newcomers. • Kraken is committed to industry-leading security, crypto education, and world-class client support. • The Consumer team focuses on building applications that expose Kraken’s product offering to the mass market. • Onboard the next 100 million people to the benefits of crypto. • This role involves developing features and maintaining the Consumer applications with an extreme eye for detail and a \"ship fast but don’t ship shit\" attitude. • The opportunity includes: designing and implementing robust Rust services and libraries, writing reusable and efficient code, collaborating on distributed systems, and working with hundreds of Rust engineers.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience • Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust • Have a security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness • Demonstrate the ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application) • Apply a solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems, to design scalable solutions • Collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems • Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries • Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture • Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries • Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient codebase • Collaborate on large scale distributed systems architecture • Work side by side with hundreds of experienced Rust engineers

🏖️ Benefits

• industry-leading security • crypto education • world-class client support