Rust Backend Engineer - FinTech, Real-Time Trading

Academic Work Switzerland SA; Zürich; In loco; CHF 120.000 - 170.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Technical ownership

Modern tech stack

Greenfield development

Engineering development

International collaboration

Direct impact

Descrizione del lavoro

Academic Work Switzerland SA in Zürich is seeking a Rust Engineer to join a growing Swiss FinTech company developing a digital trading platform. The role focuses on market connectivity, real-time data processing and robust order routing in production.

You will build reliable, concurrent services, work with the infrastructure team on deployments, and help ensure stability and performance. The position offers 100% workload, permanent employment, and a collaborative, international engineering

Competenze

• At least 3 years of experience in backend development, systems engineering or a similar software engineering role.
• Hands-on experience developing applications in, including async programming, concurrency and error handling.
• Solid knowledge of Linux, networking and distributed systems.
• Experience debugging applications, analysing performance and writing reliable, maintainable code.
• Independent, responsible and structured, with an emphasis on testing, documentation and production stability.
• Strong English communication skills; experience with financial trading systems is an advantage.

Mansioni

• Develop and maintain production services for market data processing, exchange connectivity and order routing.
• Design concurrent, event-driven systems that handle message ordering, retries, reconnections and failure recovery.
• Integrate external trading interfaces and APIs, ensuring reliable data exchange and connection management.
• Analyse and improve application performance, latency, throughput and resource utilisation.
• Develop automated tests, monitor application behaviour and investigate production issues.
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure engineers on deployments, incident resolution and production support.

Conoscenze

Backend development

Async programming

Concurrency

English communication

Strumenti

Linux

Networking

Distributed systems

Descrizione del lavoro

Academic Work Switzerland SA in Zürich is seeking a Rust Engineer to join a growing Swiss FinTech company developing a digital trading platform. The role focuses on market connectivity, real-time data processing and robust order routing in production.

You will build reliable, concurrent services, work with the infrastructure team on deployments, and help ensure stability and performance. The position offers 100% workload, permanent employment, and a collaborative, international engineering