About Kraken
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About the Role
As a Senior Banking Engineer you will be working on building out a new banking and payments platform from the ground up using Rust. You’ll be engaged in prototyping new services in Rust with the goal of taking these services to production over the next 6 - 12 months. We are looking for self-driven, well-organized engineers that are comfortable having technical and non-technical discussions. As part of a newly formed team there will be opportunity to take ownership of new services and problems.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement of microservices in Rust connecting to financial systems and payment networks
- Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code. Be ready to talk about what this means to you
- Analyze requirements, vendor APIs, and translate into application designs
- Implementation of security and data protection systems
- Communicate with non-technical team members of project status
Requirements
- In a remote work environment
- With high-precision financial computing
- Writing networked code in Rust
- Writing asynchronous code in Rust
- Docker, or comparable container technologies
- Experience working in banking and payments
Nice to have
- Experience with GraphQL or gRPC
- Understanding or payment schemes like wire, ACH, SEPA, etc...
- Experience with Kubernetes orchestration tools
- Open source contributions in any language
We’re powered by people from around the world with their own unique and diverse experiences. We value all Krakenites and their talents, contributions, and perspectives, regardless of their background. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgable about crypto!
As an equal opportunity employer we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that’s based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.
