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Remote
Senior
Full Time
RustbackendseniorAI-assisted engineeringcryptocurrencydistributed systems
Requirements
- •6+ years of backend engineering experience with deep Rust proficiency
- •Experience with network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design (RPC protocols, Kafka, event-driven architectures)
- •Track record of owning systems and making architectural decisions in production
- •Product engineering mindset with experience shipping features from problem to user impact
- •Demonstrated impact through mentoring, design review, technical writing, or setting standards
- •Experience driving work that spans teams or organizations with alignment and sequencing
- •AI-first development approach actively using AI for coding and validation
- •Ownership mindset with collaborative spirit working across backend/frontend boundaries
- •Openness to evolving engineering profession due to AI, prioritizing shipping valuable products
What You'll Do
- •Own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences
- •Take ambiguous, multi-quarter problems from concept to shipped and measured, breaking them down for team parallel work
- •Own features end-to-end including customer experience, frontend impact, and product problem
- •Partner with product leadership to shape the roadmap and own outcomes and metrics
- •Drive initiatives that cross team boundaries and build relationships and technical alignment
- •Mentor mid-level engineers, review designs, unblock people, and establish patterns and standards
- •Use AI extensively to amplify scope and speed, orchestrate AI and validate implementation, and help define AI-assisted engineering practices
Nice to Have
- •Full-stack experience including React/TypeScript or other frontend frameworks
- •Cryptocurrency or blockchain domain knowledge
- •Experience building and scaling products at consumer-focused technology companies at meaningful user scale
- •Experience introducing AI tooling or workflows to an engineering team
About Kraken
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that provides parachain auctions, staking, and index services.
San Francisco, CA
1000 - 5000
Finance