Join Kraken's Consumer team as a Software Engineer to develop robust Rust services for trading and crypto experiences.
Posted by employer 4 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 3+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the Software Engineer focuses on developing and maintaining consumer applications that enhance user interaction with Kraken's offerings. Proficiency in Rust, particularly in writing network services and asynchronous code, is essential, along with a solid understanding of distributed systems. This position is ideal for experienced engineers who are detail-oriented and capable of taking ownership of complex systems while mentoring others. The team is part of a well-established company that emphasizes a high-performance engineering culture.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze September 2, 2026. Last confirmed on Kraken's careers page November 14, 2026.
- Rust appears in 15.6% of 263 comparable mid backend roles in United States.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Rust.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Kraken targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer role at Kraken.
From the original posting
The team
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
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