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Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer

Kraken· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Backend Engineer focused on building consumer-facing Rust backend services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences. Own architecture, end-to-end delivery, and drive AI-assisted engineering within Kraken's Consumer team.

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences — making the design calls on systems that will outlive the feature you built them for
  • Take ambiguous, multi-quarter problems from "we think this matters" to shipped and measured, breaking them down so the rest of the team can move in parallel with you
  • Own features end-to-end rather than stopping at the API/backend boundary, and raise the bar on what "end-to-end" means for everyone around you — customer experience, frontend impact, and the product problem behind what you're building
  • Partner with product leadership to shape the roadmap for a product area, not just execute against it
  • Drive initiatives that cross team boundaries — Kraken's trading infrastructure, platform, and other product teams
  • Multiply the team: mentor mid-level engineers, review designs before code exists, unblock people quickly, and leave behind patterns and standards
  • Use AI extensively to amplify scope and speed, moving from manually writing code toward orchestrating AI and validating implementation

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep Rust proficiency across network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design (RPC protocols, Kafka, event-driven architectures)
  • A track record of owning systems, not just features. You've made architectural decisions in production, lived with the consequences, and can explain the tradeoffs you'd make differently now
  • Product engineering mindset. You've shipped features from problem → implementation → launch → user impact, with deep understanding of customer experience and product metrics, and you've influenced what got built and what got cut
  • Demonstrated impact through others: mentoring, design review, technical writing, or setting standards that changed how a team worked
  • Experience driving work that spans teams or orgs, where the hard part was alignment and sequencing as much as the code
  • AI-first development approach where AI is already meaningfully incorporated into your workflow; you actively use AI for coding, understanding unfamiliar codebases, crossing technical boundaries, and validating implementations
  • Ownership mindset with collaborative spirit. You personally drive features end-to-end, work across backend/frontend boundaries, and operate outside technical silos
  • Openness to how the engineering profession is evolving because of AI, prioritizing shipping valuable products over manual code writing

Skills

Required:RustBackend architectureProduct engineering mindsetMentoring / leadershipAI tooling and workflows

Benefits

  • Culture and growth opportunities at Kraken
  • Global remote-friendly environment
  • Opportunity to influence consumer-facing crypto experiences
  • Collaborative engineering culture with emphasis on AI-assisted workflows
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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