Kraken Software Engineer II - Backend - Payments

Remote backend engineer role in Romania with Kraken's Payments & Blockchain team. Rust or Node/TypeScript, distributed systems, 3+ years experience.

Payward — the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks — has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry. The Payments & Blockchain team is responsible for the first and last mile of every dollar, digital or fiat, that goes in or out of Kraken. -Design and implement robust services and libraries for payments integration across our products at Kraken -Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient codebase -Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, and Fronted Engineering to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements in a large scale distributed systems architecture -Partner closely with crypto native engineers

-3+ years of experience in software engineering -Proficiency in writing clean, scalable backend code in a systems language, with preference to Rust or Node/TypeScript -Demonstrated commitment to a security-first mindset when designing systems -Capability to autonomously debug issues across the stack, including OS, network, and application layers -Familiarity with distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event Driven Systems