Senior Rust Software Engineer

Provntalent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Provn Talent Solutions Ltd is recruiting a Senior Rust Software Engineer for a leading global financial-markets firm. You will join the Core Trading Engineering team to design and build high-performance Rust applications and distributed services in Linux environments.

You will collaborate with quantitative teams to deliver business-critical software, drive performance improvements and follow engineering best practices in a technically challenging environment.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience developing software in Rust.
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• Strong background in systems programming and backend engineering.
• Experience building low-latency or high-performance distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, concurrency and asynchronous programming.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise high-performance Rust applications.
• Develop low-latency trading infrastructure and backend services.
• Build scalable distributed systems running in Linux environments.
• Work closely with quantitative developers and trading teams to deliver business-critical software.
• Drive performance optimisation, reliability and engineering best practices.

Skills

Rust

Systems programming

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Low-latency optimization

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Python

C++

Job description

Provn are partnered with a global financial-markets firm serving institutional clients looking to hire a Senior Rust Software Engineer to join their Core Trading Engineering team.This is an opportunity to build low-latency, high-performance trading systems using Rust in one of the most technically challenging engineering environments. You'll work alongside experienced software engineers and quantitative teams to develop the distributed systems that power global electronic trading.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and optimise high-performance Rust applications
• Develop low-latency trading infrastructure and backend services
• Build scalable distributed systems running in Linux environments
• Work closely with quantitative developers and trading teams to deliver business-critical software
• Drive performance optimisation, reliability and engineering best practices

Skills & Experience

• Commercial experience developing software in Rust
• Strong background in systems programming and backend engineering
• Experience building low-latency or high-performance distributed systems
• Strong knowledge of Linux, concurrency and asynchronous programming
• Excellent understanding of software design, algorithms and performance optimisation

Desirable

• High Frequency Trading (HFT), Electronic Trading or Capital Markets experience
• Experience with networking or exchange connectivity
• Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes or AWS
• Python or C++

Why Apply?

• Join one of the industry's leading engineering teams
• Build software where performance directly impacts trading outcomes
• Work with modern Rust technologies on large-scale distributed systems
• Highly competitive salary, bonus and outstanding career progression

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