Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer

Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system.

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep Rust proficiency across network services, asynchronous code, and distributed systems design (RPC protocols, Kafka, event-driven architectures)

• A track record of owning systems, not just features. You've made architectural decisions in production, lived with the consequences, and can explain the tradeoffs you'd make differently now

• Product engineering mindset. You've shipped features from problem → implementation → launch → user impact, with deep understanding of customer experience and product metrics, and you've influenced what got built and what got cut

• Demonstrated impact through others: mentoring, design review, technical writing, or setting standards that changed how a team worked

• Experience driving work that spans teams or orgs, where the hard part was alignment and sequencing as much as the code

• 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

• Openness to how the engineering profession is evolving because of AI, prioritizing shipping valuable products over manual code writing

• Full-stack experience including React/TypeScript or other frontend frameworks — valuable for demonstrating cross-boundary collaboration mindset

• Cryptocurrency or blockchain domain knowledge

• Experience building and scaling products at consumer-focused technology companies, ideally at meaningful user scale

• Experience introducing AI tooling or workflows to an engineering team

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