Senior Rust Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Leeds; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative AI tech start-up in the financial data sector is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer in Leeds. This impactful role involves developing high-performance platform services that enhance trading opportunities through advanced analytics. Candidates should possess deep Rust expertise and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment, contributing to cutting-edge technology.

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of Rust, including Generics and SerDe.
• Self-starter with minimal technical hand-holding.
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain platform services underpinning AI products.
• Contribute technical ideas and collaborate with QA.
• Work closely with SMEs in data science and quantitative finance.

Skills

Rust

Generics

Message Passing/IPC

Data Engineering

ETL

Data Modelling

Cloud Deployment

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Senior Rust Engineer, leeds, west yorkshire

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Client:

Search 5.0

Location:

leeds, west yorkshire, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

10.06.2025

Expiry Date:

25.07.2025

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Job Description:

Search 5.0 is delighted to partner with an innovative AI tech start-up in the financial data sector, seeking a Rust Developer to join their exciting journey!

Our client equips traders with tools that are faster, smarter, and easier to use.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading AI company whose Machine Learning product suite creates new trading opportunities through real-time analytics, supported by a world-class, scalable, ultra-low latency architecture.

The Data Platform is crucial to all capabilities and services, enabling data ingestion, analysis, querying, and storage at near-real-time speeds, setting our client apart from competitors. While most companies process data in days, hours, or minutes, our client operates at nano to millisecond scales, a speed typically reserved for stock market trading systems.

Job: Rust Developer

Joining an incredible, small tribe you will play a pivotal role in driving the technical direction ensuring requirements are met and building a scalable product.

• Develop and maintain the platform services that underpin our products, in tandem with SME’s in data science and quantitive finance.
• Contribute new products and technical ideas, providing feedback and collaboration sessions.
• Work closely with QA to ensure that systems are engineered accordingly

What we’re seeking?

• A strong working knowledge of Rust including Generics, SerDe, Sockets, Message Passing/IPC.
• Courage, adaptability and team collaboration with a start-up
• A self starter needing little technical hand-holding
• Understanding of various software deployment strategies such as micro-services.
• Competent use of source control management, issue tracking tools and branching strategies.
• Track record of bootstrapping projects in new business domains.
• Understanding and experience of data engineering, ETL and data modelling.
• Working experience of relational databases, either PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB.
• Experience and understanding of deploying software in a cloud environment, either GCP, AWS or Azure.

No sponsorship of offered and must be based in the UK