Overview In this role you will own and shape the architecture of consumer

- facing Rust backend services powering trading, payments, and crypto experiences.

You’ll translate ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes while collaborating across product and engineering teams.

You’ll drive end-to-end delivery, raise the bar on customer experience, and help define what end-to-end means for the organization.

The role offers the chance to leverage AI to accelerate scope and quality, delivering world-class user experiences at scale.

Responsabilidades

- Own the architecture and delivery of customer-facing Rust backend services for trading, payments, and crypto experiences
- Break down ambiguous, multi-quarter problems into shippable work and coordinate parallel effort
- Deliver features end-to-end beyond API/backend boundaries, impacting frontend and product problems
- Partner with product leadership to shape roadmap and outcomes, influencing what gets built
- Drive cross-team initiatives across trading infrastructure, platform, and other product teams




- Mentor mid-level engineers, review designs, unblock peers, and establish patterns and standards
- Champion AI-assisted engineering, defining good AI practices and applying AI to coding and validation Requisitos principales
- 6+ years backend engineering experience with deep Rust proficiency
- Proven track record owning systems and making architectural decisions in production
- Product-focused engineering mindset with understanding of customer experience and product metrics
- Experience mentoring, design reviews, and setting engineering standards
- Experience leading work that spans teams or organizations
- AI-first development approach and willingness to incorporate AI into workflows
- Ownership mindset with collaborative, boundary-spanning approach
- Open to evolving engineering practices due to AI advancements
- collaboration
- mentoring * strong communication
- Rust * network services
- asynchronous programming

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Consumer (Bilbao)
🏢 Kraken
📍 Bilbao