Senior Software Engineer – Rust

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🇷🇴 Romania – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2011

₿ Crypto

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

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.

📋 Description

• Set the technical direction for Kraken Consumer applications • Own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences • Make architectural decisions for long-lived systems • Take ambiguous, multi-quarter problems from concept to shipped and measured outcomes • Break down complex work so teammates can work in parallel • Own features end-to-end, including customer experience, frontend impact, and product objectives • Partner with product leadership to shape roadmaps and product direction • Own product outcomes and metrics • Drive cross-team initiatives involving trading infrastructure, platform, and other product teams • Build relationships and technical alignment across teams • Mentor mid-level engineers • Review designs before implementation • Unblock teammates and establish reusable engineering patterns and standards • Use AI to amplify engineering scope and speed • Help define effective AI-assisted engineering practices

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience • Deep Rust proficiency across network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design • Experience with RPC protocols, Kafka, and event-driven architectures • Track record of owning production systems and making architectural decisions • Product engineering experience from problem through launch and user impact • Experience influencing product direction and metrics • Demonstrated impact through mentoring, design reviews, technical writing, or team standards • Experience driving work across teams or organizations • AI-first development approach with meaningful use of AI for coding, unfamiliar codebases, technical boundaries, and implementation validation • Ownership mindset and ability to work across backend/frontend boundaries • Full-stack experience including React/TypeScript or other frontend frameworks is a nice-to-have • Cryptocurrency or blockchain domain knowledge is a nice-to-have • Experience building and scaling consumer-focused products is a nice-to-have • Experience introducing AI tooling or workflows to an engineering team is a nice-to-have

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work at Payward/Kraken, a globally accessible open-finance and crypto infrastructure company • Dogfooding Kraken products is required once employed • Equal opportunity employment and consideration of qualified applicants with criminal histories • Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates • Ongoing applications unless a specific deadline is stated