Senior Rust Developer – Fintech / Trading / Infrastructure

Eclipse IT Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Our client, a high-growth fintech/crypto platform, is seeking a senior Rust developer in Birmingham. You will design low-latency services, own critical components like trading and market data, and optimize end-to-end performance.

Join a growing team, mentor peers, and shape the core infrastructure. Permanent or contract roles with bonus, equity and private healthcare offered.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience building production Rust systems, including async Rust.
• Strong background in C++ or another systems language.
• Experience with low-latency, high-throughput services and Linux performance.
• Production distributed systems experience; cloud and containers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency, high-throughput services in Rust.
• Own critical components such as trading, market data, payments or core infra.
• Tune performance across networking, concurrency and memory.
• Build distributed systems that stay correct under heavy load.
• Champion testing, observability and clean code.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical design discussions.

Skills

Rust

Async Rust

C++

Distributed systems

Low-latency networking

Linux performance tuning

GCP/AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Job description

Location: Birmingham / hybrid or UK remote

Salary: Permanent: £95,000 – £140,000 + bonus and benefits. Contract: competitive day rate

Type: Permanent or contract

Our client, a high-growth business in financial technology and digital assets, needs a senior Rust developer to build the low-latency, high-reliability systems at the heart of its platform.

What you'll do:

• Design and build low-latency, high-throughput services in Rust
• Own critical components such as trading, market data, payments or core infrastructure
• Tune performance end to end: networking, concurrency and memory
• Build distributed systems that stay correct and resilient under heavy load
• Champion testing, observability and clean, maintainable code
• Mentor other engineers and lead technical design discussions

What you’ll bring:

• Senior-level experience building production systems in Rust, including async Rust
• A strong background in C++ or another systems language
• Low‑latency, networking and Linux performance tuning experience
• Distributed systems experience in production
• Cloud and containers (AWS or GCP, Kubernetes)
• Trading, exchange, crypto/blockchain or fintech experience a strong plus
• PostgreSQL and gRPC welcome

Benefits: Bonus, equity, pension and private healthcare (permanent roles).