Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Payward Services at Kraken answer
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<h1><strong>Building the Future of Open Finance</strong><br /></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">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, built to advance an open, global financial system.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br />Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.kraken.com/culture"><u>culture page</u></a> to understand what drives us and how we work.</p><h2><strong>The team</strong></h2><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em">Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a Senior Software Engineer in Payward Services you'll build and scale the systems that make this platform work under the hood, from real-time coordination across services to the infrastructure enterprise partners depend on to move money and assets safely, at scale, every day. We’re looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity, move quickly with ownership, and care deeply about creating robust solutions.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2><strong>The opportunity</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences with a focus on reliability, performance, and user impact.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue-critical systems without compromising safety or security.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate on large-scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low-latency solutions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high-performance, product-driven engineering culture.</p></li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"> </div><h2><strong>What you bring</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5+ years of software engineering experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Have a security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Demonstrate the ability to auton