Senior Backend Engineer - Rust - Core Backend

As part of Kraken's Core Backend team, you will work within a world-class team of engineers building Kraken's infrastructure using Rust. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will bring your own technical expertise and help design new services, and port legacy ones into Rust. You will carry projects from initial requirements, implementation, up to production.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of Micro-services in Rust
• Port legacy Micro-services to Rust
• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
• Implementation of security and data protection systems
• Write highly scalable, high volume services
• Create optimized database schemas

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in software engineering
• Experience writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust
• Experience using a Linux server environment
• Ability to independently debug problems involving the network and operating system
• Leadership in defining technical requirements and drive projects through to completion
• Assume technical responsibility of complex backend systems, identify opportunities for system improvement
• Act as technical leader, mentor junior engineers and ensure best practices are adhered to
• Be familiar with deployment using Docker
• Have experience with system languages (C, C++, Go) and/or strongly typed programming (OCaml, Haskell, Rust)
• Be knowledgeable about distributed systems and technologies (gRPC, Kafka, NoSQL, SQL, Redis, ...)
• Be passionate about secure, reliable and fast software
• Be familiar with PHP