Rust Backend Engineer - Real-Time, Distributed Robotics

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

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment is partnering with a high-growth European deep-tech company in London to form a new Rust engineering team. You will build and optimize the core Rust backend powering real-time communications, mission planning and autonomous fleet coordination.

This is a hybrid role with three days onsite in London. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of production Rust experience and a proven ability to design distributed backend systems with strong networking and concurrency

Qualifications

• 2+ years of production Rust experience.
• Experience designing distributed backend systems.
• Strong networking and multithreading skills.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance backend systems in Rust.
• Develop low-latency communication protocols for distributed robotic systems.
• Solve challenges around concurrency, multithreading and real-time processing.
• Optimise system performance, scalability and reliability.
• Collaborate with robotics and hardware teams on system architecture and integration.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Networking

Concurrency

Job description

Understanding Recruitment is partnering with a high-growth European deep-tech company in London to form a new Rust engineering team. You will build and optimize the core Rust backend powering real-time communications, mission planning and autonomous fleet coordination.

This is a hybrid role with three days onsite in London. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years of production Rust experience and a proven ability to design distributed backend systems with strong networking and concurrency