Senior Rust Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative AI tech start-up in the financial data sector is seeking a Rust Developer to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in the technical direction and contribute to the company’s cutting-edge data platform, which enables real-time analytics at unprecedented speeds. Candidates should possess a strong command of Rust and relevant experience in data engineering and deployment strategies. This opportunity offers the chance to be part of an agile team, shaping product development in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Rust and relevant libraries.
• Experience in data engineering, ETL, and data modelling.
• Understanding of various software deployment strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain platform services in collaboration with data science and quantitative finance teams.
• Contribute new products and collaborate technically.
• Work closely with QA to ensure systems are engineered to specification.

Skills

Rust

Generics

SerDe

Sockets

Message Passing/IPC

Data Engineering

ETL

Data Modelling

Relational Databases

Micro-services

Cloud Deployment

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.

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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.

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No sponsorship of offered and must be based in the UK

Apply via the link or give Jonny Potts @ [e-mail]

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Created on 10/06/2025 by JR United Kingdom