Senior Rust Engineer for Low-Latency Trading

Rustify; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

McGregor Boyall is recruiting a Senior Low Latency Rust Engineer for a leading electronic trading environment in the United Kingdom. The role is hybrid and involves hands-on coding across Rust and Java frameworks, with a focus on ultra-low latency performance in a multi-platform setting.

The ideal candidate will have background in latency-sensitive trading, strong Rust experience, and familiarity with Linux kernel-level performance improvements to support 10–100 microsecond processing ranges.

Qualifications

• Strong background in low-latency/high-throughput systems.
• Experience in algorithmic or electronic trading environments is a plus.
• Proficient in Linux systems and kernel-tuning for performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize Rust and Java frameworks for latency-sensitive trading systems.
• Performance profiling, benchmarking and latency reduction across multi-team platforms.
• Collaborate with global tech teams to define latency-sensitive architecture and tooling.

Skills

Rust

Java

C++

Job description

McGregor Boyall is recruiting a Senior Low Latency Rust Engineer for a leading electronic trading environment in the United Kingdom. The role is hybrid and involves hands-on coding across Rust and Java frameworks, with a focus on ultra-low latency performance in a multi-platform setting.

The ideal candidate will have background in latency-sensitive trading, strong Rust experience, and familiarity with Linux kernel-level performance improvements to support 10–100 microsecond processing ranges.