Senior Low-Latency Rust Engineer - Hybrid London

McGregor Boyall; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Job summary

McGregor Boyall in London is seeking a Senior Low Latency Rust Engineer to join a specialist team building high-performance frameworks, libraries and tooling for a global electronic trading environment.

The role is hands-on (≈90%), focusing on Rust with Java, Linux internals, kernel bypass tech, and latency optimization across multiple trading platforms. Hybrid work model with up to 3 days in office.

Qualifications

• Background in algorithmic trading or electronic trading (latency-sensitive)
• Experience with Rust, modern Java or C++
• Low-latency/high-throughput systems
• Market-data technologies or latency-sensitive data processing
• Linux internals and kernel behaviour
• TCP/IP networking and kernel-bypass technologies
• Performance tuning and optimisation
• Knowledge of time-series databases like KDB

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performance Rust and Java frameworks used across multiple trading platforms
• Analyze and optimise latency across the full stack, from application code to kernel-bypass layers
• Build event-sourced, low-latency data processing pipelines and tooling
• Benchmark, profile and fix performance bottlenecks in production systems
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across a global electronic trading environment

Skills

Rust

Java

C++

Low-latency systems

KDB

Tools

Solarflare/OpenOnload

Job description

McGregor Boyall in London is seeking a Senior Low Latency Rust Engineer to join a specialist team building high-performance frameworks, libraries and tooling for a global electronic trading environment.

The role is hands-on (≈90%), focusing on Rust with Java, Linux internals, kernel bypass tech, and latency optimization across multiple trading platforms. Hybrid work model with up to 3 days in office.