Senior Software Engineer - Rust

Kraken (Payward Services) is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Rust to build robust Rust services and libraries powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. Fully remote across multiple countries.

Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform enabling companies to integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. The opportunity: - Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences - Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems - Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions - Work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture

What you bring: - 5+ years of software engineering experience, proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust - Security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness - Solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems

Remote — Poland / Argentina / Brazil / Bulgaria / Chile / Colombia / Cyprus / Czech Republic / Hungary / Mexico / Peru / Romania / South Africa / Spain / Sweden