Rust Systems Engineer - Low-Latency Trading

Provn; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Provn recruits for a Senior Rust Software Engineer for a leading global financial-markets firm. You will design high-performance Rust applications for low-latency trading backends running on Linux.

Join a challenging engineering environment, collaborating with quantitative teams and traders to deliver robust distributed systems. The role emphasizes performance, reliability and modern Rust tech in core trading infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience developing software in Rust.
• Backend engineering with systems programming.
• Experience building low-latency distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, concurrency and async programming.
• HFT or Electronic trading experience desirable.
• Experience with networking or exchange connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise high-performance Rust applications.
• Develop low-latency trading infrastructure and backend services.
• Build scalable distributed systems running in Linux environments.
• Work closely with quantitative developers and trading teams to deliver business-critical software.
• Drive performance optimisation, reliability and engineering best practices.

Skills

Rust

Systems programming

Low-latency

Distributed systems

Linux

Concurrency

Algorithms

HFT/Capital markets

Networking

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

C++

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Provn recruits for a Senior Rust Software Engineer for a leading global financial-markets firm. You will design high-performance Rust applications for low-latency trading backends running on Linux.

Join a challenging engineering environment, collaborating with quantitative teams and traders to deliver robust distributed systems. The role emphasizes performance, reliability and modern Rust tech in core trading infrastructure.