Senior Rust Developer - Fintech / Trading / Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Pension

Private healthcare

Job summary

Eclipse IT Recruitment is seeking a senior engineer to design and build low-latency services in Rust, owning core components such as trading and market data. You will tune performance and lead design discussions in a hybrid/remote UK role.

Applicants should have a strong background in Rust (async), C++, and distributed systems, with cloud experience (AWS/GCP) and Kubernetes. Financial tech experience and PostgreSQL are a plus.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience building production systems in Rust, with async Rust.

Responsibilities

• Design and build low-latency, high-throughput services in Rust.

Skills

Rust

Async Rust

C++

Low-latency

Networking

Linux tuning

Distributed systems

Cloud

Kubernetes

Trading/Fintech

PostgreSQL

gRPC

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

PostgreSQL

gRPC

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).