Senior Software Engineer – Rust

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer in Payward Services you’ll build and scale the systems that make this platform work under the hood, from real‑time coordination across services to the infrastructure enterprise partners depend on to move money and assets safely, at scale, every day.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement robust Rust services and libraries that power trading, payments, and crypto experiences.
• Write reusable, testable, and highly efficient code that scales across teams and supports revenue‑critical systems.
• Collaborate on large‑scale distributed systems architecture, translating evolving product requirements into resilient, low‑latency solutions.
• Work alongside hundreds of experienced Rust engineers, contributing to a high‑performance, product‑driven engineering culture.

Required profile

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Proficient in writing network services or asynchronous code in Rust.
• Security‑first mindset during system design.
• Ability to autonomously debug issues across the stack (OS, network, application).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, RPC protocols, Kafka, and event‑driven architectures.
• Experience taking end‑to‑end ownership of systems and mentoring other engineers.

Required skills

• Rust
• Asynchronous programming
• Network services development
• RPC protocols
• Kafka
• Event‑driven systems