Software Engineer - Rust - Backend - Consumer

Software Engineer - Rust - Backend - Consumer

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Building the Future of Crypto. Our Krakenites are a world‑class team with crypto conviction, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology.

Kraken is a mission‑focused company rooted in crypto values. As a Krakenite, you’ll join us on our mission to accelerate the global adoption of crypto, so that everyone can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.

Before you apply, please read the Kraken Culture page to learn more about our internal culture, values, and mission. We also expect candidates to familiarize themselves with the Kraken app.

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our growing Consumer team. The Consumer team at Kraken focuses on building applications that expose Kraken’s product offering to the mass market, with the goal of onboarding the next 100 million people to the benefits of crypto.

This role primarily involves developing features and maintaining our “Consumer” applications, which consists of a suite of applications aimed at offering the simplest way for our customers to interact with Kraken. We expect anyone applying for this role to have an extreme eye for detail, a passion for building genuinely world‑class user experiences, a “ship fast but don’t ship shit” attitude, and be highly self‑driven.

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries.
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient codebase.
• Collaborate on large‑scale distributed systems architecture.
• Work side by side with hundreds of experienced Rust engineers.

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Proficiency in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• 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.

This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no Final date to receive applications.

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.

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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