Senior Backend Engineer (AI/Rust)

The Team:

• Expand the Kraken platform by building new backend capabilities and shared primitives that unlock new product experiences.
• Work in a high-trust, fast-moving environment where projects are often early-stage and ambiguous.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional partners to design and deliver new backend capabilities that interface directly with core platform infrastructure.

The Ideal Candidate:

• You have high engineering horsepower and strong fundamentals (systems thinking, debugging, architecture, performance), while staying practical and outcome-oriented.
• You’re low-ego, high-standards: you raise the quality bar through example, thoughtful reviews, and good taste—without creating friction.
• You communicate clearly, bring calm energy, and help teams stay optimistic and focused when timelines are real and constraints are sharp.

The Opportunity:

• Work on latency-sensitive and real-time system components
• Own end-to-end technical design, from protocol and service boundaries through production deployment
• Leverage modern AI tooling to significantly accelerate development velocity while maintaining engineering rigor