Rust Engineer – Hybrid, High-Performance Trading Backend

Academic Work; Zürich; Ibrido; CHF 100.000 - 140.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Academic Work in Zurich is seeking a Rust Engineer to join a Swiss FinTech trading platform. You will develop core services, focus on market connectivity, real-time data processing and order routing, and own the code from development to production.

You will work with a small, collaborative team in a hybrid environment, emphasising reliability, performance and sustainable working hours. English is required; knowledge of German is a plus.

Competenze

• 3+ years in backend development or systems engineering.
• Hands-on Rust with async programming.
• Strong knowledge of Linux networking and distributed systems.
• Independent, responsible and structured with focus on production stability.
• Excellent English communication; German and financial trading systems experience is a plus.
• Able to take ownership of core trading services.

Mansioni

• Develop and maintain core trading platform services in Rust.
• Design concurrent, event-driven architectures for market data and order routing.
• Integrate external trading interfaces and APIs.
• Optimize performance, latency and resource usage.
• Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams on deployments and incidents.

Conoscenze

Rust

Backend development

Distributed systems

Linux networking

Testing & reliability

English communication

Technical ownership

Greenfield development

Descrizione del lavoro

Academic Work in Zurich is seeking a Rust Engineer to join a Swiss FinTech trading platform. You will develop core services, focus on market connectivity, real-time data processing and order routing, and own the code from development to production.

You will work with a small, collaborative team in a hybrid environment, emphasising reliability, performance and sustainable working hours. English is required; knowledge of German is a plus.