Senior Rust Developer – Fintech / Trading / Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Eclipse IT Recruitment in Manchester is seeking a senior systems engineer to design and build low-latency, high-throughput services in Rust, with ownership of critical components such as trading or market data infrastructure. The role includes performance tuning, distributed systems work, and mentoring team members.

The role supports hybrid or UK remote work, with a salary range of £95,000 to £140,000 per year plus bonus and benefits, and a permanent or contract engagement depending on candidate

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience building production systems in Rust, including async Rust.
• Strong background in C++ or another systems language.
• Low-latency, networking and Linux performance tuning.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Rust

Async Rust

C++

Low latency

Networking

Linux performance

Distributed systems

Cloud

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Trading/Fintech

Job description

Location: Manchester / hybrid or UK remote

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

Type: Permanent or contract

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).