Senior Rust Developer – Fintech / Trading / Infrastructure

Location: London / hybrid or UK remote

Salary: Permanent: £95,000 – £140,000 + bonus and benefits. Contract: competitive day rate

Type: Permanent or contract

Our client, a high-growth business in financial technology and digital assets, needs a senior Rust developer to build the low-latency, high-reliability systems at the heart of its platform.

What you'll do

• Design and build low-latency, high-throughput services in Rust
• Own critical components such as trading, market data, payments or core infrastructure
• Tune performance end to end: networking, concurrency and memory
• Build distributed systems that stay correct and resilient under heavy load
• Champion testing, observability and clean, maintainable code
• Mentor other engineers and lead technical design discussions

What you'll bring

• Senior-level experience building production systems in Rust, including async Rust
• A strong background in C++ or another systems language
• Low-latency, networking and Linux performance tuning experience
• Distributed systems experience in production
• Cloud and containers (AWS or GCP, Kubernetes)
• Trading, exchange, crypto/blockchain or fintech experience a strong plus
• PostgreSQL and gRPC welcome

Benefits: Bonus, equity, pension and private healthcare (permanent roles).

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