Senior Rust Engineer - Trading

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cryptocurrency technology is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer to join their team in London. This role involves developing low-latency systems and optimizing infrastructure while working in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have strong Rust programming skills and experience in finance or trading environments.

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Rust with proven commercial experience.
• Experience writing high-performance code in finance or trading environments.
• Strong understanding of database development, mostly in PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Improving the low-latency block building infrastructure.
• Designing and developing new features using Rust.
• Optimising network infrastructure.

Skills

Rust

C++

Go

Database Development

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Senior Rust Engineer - Trading

MEV Trading

London, Liverpool Street

Up to £140k + Bonus + Equity (OTE £200K+)

We've partnered with a London-based Cryptocurrency tech company that builds MEV infrastructure in Rust.

As a Senior Rust Engineer here, you'll be brought into a tight-knit team of about 12 engineers, developing low-latency asynchronous Rust systems and working on algorithmic challenges... you will be influential in building their core infrastructure as they continue to scale.

As the Senior Rust Engineer here you will be:

• Improving the low-latency block building infrastructure
• Designing and developing new features using Rust
• Optimising their network infrastructure

The successful Senior Rust Engineer will have:

• Strong programming skills in Rust with proven commercial experience (C++, Go are also nice to have)
• Experience writing high-performance code in a finance (Trading, Quant, Crypto) environment
• Strong understanding of database development, mostly in Postgresql.
• An interest (but not necessarily exposure/experience) in Blockchain development

This role is based in central London in their WeWork offices, with a hybrid working policy, no core days set (just hoping to see you for 3 days).

If you're a Rust Engineer wanting to build world-class crypto infrastructure in a fast-moving environment, then click apply now!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering, Information Technology, and Science

• Industries

  Financial Services, Software Development, and Computer Networking Products

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