Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer
THE TEAM
Founded in 2011, Kraken is one of the world's longest-standing crypto platforms, trusted by over 10 million individuals and institutions across the globe. It offers spot trading, margin, futures, staking, and OTC services, with products built for both individual investors and institutional clients.
We are currently seeking an experienced 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. Trying to onboard 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.
THE OPPORTUNITY
- Design and implement customer-facing Rust backend services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences
- Own features end-to-end rather than stopping at the API/backend boundary, understanding customer experience, frontend impact, and the product problem behind what you're building.
- Collaborate with product teams to understand customer requirements and integrate with Kraken's trading infrastructure while maintaining a product-led engineering focus
- Propose improvements and drive solutions autonomously. You're not simply implementing specifications, but translating evolving product requirements into resilient solutions that ship valuable experiences.
- Use AI extensively to amplify scope and speed, moving from manually writing code toward orchestrating AI and validating implementation, increasingly focused on problem definition, architecture, and product validation.
WHAT YOU BRING
- Rust/backend engineer with proficiency in network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design (RPC protocols, Kafka, event-driven architectures)
- Product engineering mindset. You've shipped features from problem → implementation → launch → user impact, with deep understanding of customer experience and product metrics
- 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
- Security-first approach to system design with ability to autonomously debug across the stack (OS, network, application)
- Openness to how the engineering profession is evolving because of AI, prioritizing shipping valuable products over manual code writing
NICE TO HAVES
- Full-stack experience including React/TypeScript or other frontend frameworks - valuable for demonstrating cross-boundary collaboration mindset
- Cryptocurrency or blockchain domain knowledge
- Experience building products at consumer-focused technology companies