Rust Backend Engineer - Low-Latency Multi-Region EMS

Elwood; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical and discounted dent

Generous time off + bank holidays

Enhanced parental leave after 1 year

Weekly Ubereats allowance

Free onsite gym

Employee Assistance Programme

Paid study leave and personal leave

Job summary

Elwood Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer in London on a hybrid, full-time basis. You will design and build the EMS platform, focusing on low-latency, multi-region, multi-tenant systems with high availability and fault tolerance.

You will work with Rust, distributed architectures, and modern cloud tools, collaborating closely with product, QA and infra teams to deliver robust software and performant deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Proven Rust expertise with a non-trivial Rust system.
• Experience with distributed, event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement low-latency, high-throughput backend services for a multi-region EMS platform.
• Analyse critical paths and optimise performance and latency.
• Maintain fault-tolerant distributed systems across regions.
• Implement real-time monitoring, telemetry and alerting.
• Collaborate with product, QA and infra teams for seamless deployments.
• Conduct rigorous code reviews to raise team standards.
• Leverage AI coding assistants to accelerate delivery while ensuring correctness.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant patterns

Cloud platforms

Databases & caches

Observability

Non-blocking I/O

Tools

NATS

Aeron

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Zookeeper

Job description

Elwood Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer in London on a hybrid, full-time basis. You will design and build the EMS platform, focusing on low-latency, multi-region, multi-tenant systems with high availability and fault tolerance.

You will work with Rust, distributed architectures, and modern cloud tools, collaborating closely with product, QA and infra teams to deliver robust software and performant deployments.