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# Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer

- **Company:** Payward, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Network Service, Blockchain, TypeScript, ReactJS, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Apache Kafka, Front End Software Development, Software Coding
- **Published:** November 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pwo6ioo22x

## About the Role

* 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

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 and scaling products at consumer-focused technology companies, ideally at meaningful user scale
 * Experience introducing AI tooling or workflows to an engineering team

## Description

* Own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences - making the design calls on systems that will outlive the feature you built them for
 * Take ambiguous, multi-quarter problems from "we think this matters" to shipped and measured, breaking them down so the rest of the team can move in parallel with you
 * Own features end-to-end rather than stopping at the API/backend boundary, and raise the bar on what "end-to-end" means for everyone around you - customer experience, frontend impact, and the product problem behind what you're building
 * Partner with product leadership to shape the roadmap for a product area, not just execute against it. You'll bring engineering insight that changes what gets built, and own the outcomes and metrics that follow
 * Drive initiatives that cross team boundaries - Kraken's trading infrastructure, platform, and other product teams - building the relationships and technical alignment needed to land them
 * Multiply the team: mentor mid-level engineers, review designs before code exists, unblock people quickly, and leave behind patterns and standards that make the next feature easier than the last
 * Use AI extensively to amplify scope and speed, moving from manually writing code toward orchestrating AI and validating implementation - and help the team do the same, defining what good AI-assisted engineering looks like here