Senior Software Engineer – Rust – Backend

Remote from: LATAM, USA +2 more, Canada, Europe
Annual salary, USD: 135,000 - 203,000
Job function: Software Engineering
Job type: Full Time,
Job posted: 5 Mar 2025
Apply before: 4 Apr 2025
Experience level: Senior
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About company

About Kraken

We put the power in your hands to buy, sell, and trade digital currency 🌏

Financial Services
2011

Actively Hiring

4.7 Rated

Join our Crypto team to help integrate Kraken’s systems with an ever-expanding universe of cryptocurrencies and blockchains. As a member of this team, your focus is elevating our clients’ crypto journey and delivering new and exciting ways to accelerate crypto adoption. Your counterparts will be the hardcore Rust backend engineering teams, the blockchain maxi who make the kernel of the crypto teams and the React enthusiasts who finely craft our beautiful looking UI.

The opportunity

Express your crypto passion
Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Design, and Fronted Engineering to ensure seamless integration of new features and improvements
Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code
Collaborate on large scale distributed systems architecture
Work side by side with hundreds of experienced Rust engineers
Opportunities to work with on-chain data
Partner closely with crypto native engineers

Skills you should HODL

7+ years of software engineering experience
Proficiently in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
Have a security-first mindset during system design to ensure robustness
Demonstrate the ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application)
Apply a solid understanding of distributed systems and technologies, including RPC protocols, Kafka, and Event-Driven Systems, to design scalable solutions
Collaborate effectively with product teams to gather requirements and constraints for designing appropriate systems
Take complete end-to-end ownership of systems and libraries
Provide mentorship to other engineers while contributing to defining the technical culture
Deep knowledge in one or more blockchain ecosystems such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cosmos, Solana, Substrate is a huge plus
Proficiency with Typescript (Node.js) is a plus
Strong passion for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Pragmatic and solution-oriented, stoic in the face of many obstacles
Proactively adapt to rapidly evolving technologies and apply innovative solutions to dynamic challenges, demonstrating flexibility and resilience in a fast-paced development environment
Demonstrates a receptive mindset, adept at engaging in constructive dialogue on complex subjects with colleagues, while remaining adaptable and open to alternative perspectives

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline.

Please note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Kraken is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate all Krakenites for their diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions and unique perspectives. We hire strictly based on merit, meaning we seek out the candidates with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills considered the most suitable for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don’t fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you’re passionate or knowledgable about crypto!

As an equal opportunity employer, we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

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