HF Rust Engineer - Prediction Markets Hedge Fund · On-Site, Lugano posted 11 months ago

Rustify; Ticino; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rustify is hiring a Senior Rust Engineer in Lugano to design, build, and optimize high-performance trading systems that interact with prediction markets. You will work closely with researchers to translate models into production-grade code and scalable services.

You will own the development lifecycle, from architecture and implementation to deployment and performance tuning, in a hybrid on-site setting with some flexibility. Strong background in Rust and distributed systems is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience building high-performance Rust systems for trading platforms.
• Strong understanding of low-latency, distributed architectures.
• Experience integrating models with production pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance Rust trading systems.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate models into production pipelines.
• Develop APIs for prediction market platforms (Solana, Polygon).
• Own the development lifecycle from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to long-term scalability and architecture decisions.

Skills

Rust

Low-latency

Distributed systems

Trading infrastructure

Tools

Solana

Polygon

Linux

Job description

# Rust Engineer - Prediction MarketsHedge Fund · On-Site, Lugano · Senior · HybridView & ApplyWe’re working with a fast-growing hedge fund operating at the frontier of prediction markets, trading infrastructure, and quantitative research. Their mission is to uncover inefficiencies, design systems that exploit them, and scale those into systematic edge across both centralized and decentralized markets.This is a lean, execution-focused team of world-class researchers and engineers with deep domain expertise. They’re now expanding their Prediction Markets desk and looking for exceptional Rust engineers to help build and scale high-performance trading systems from the ground up.## About the RoleYou’ll be joining a small, elite team responsible for building one of the most technically advanced trading systems in the market. You’ll work closely with researchers to translate models into production-grade, low-latency systems that execute trades on decentralized prediction markets.This is a greenfield environment — no legacy codebase, no bureaucracy. You’ll have ownership from architecture and implementation to deployment and optimization.## What You’ll Do* Design, build, and maintain high-performance Rust systems for trading and execution* Collaborate with quant researchers to integrate models and pipelines* Implement and optimize APIs for prediction market platforms (e.g. Solana, Polygon)* Own the entire development lifecycle: design, testing, deployment, and performance monitoring* Contribute to architecture discussions and long-term scalability planning