Senior Software Engineer — Rust & High-Performance Systems

Understanding Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Understanding Recruitment's client in London is seeking engineers to build and optimise high-performance, latency-sensitive distributed infrastructure. You will own architecture, implementation, and production stability across the full lifecycle in a lean, technically demanding environment.

There are no specific language requirements; strong skills in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimisation are essential, with opportunities to work with Rust and engage in complex

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of concurrency and parallelism.
• Experience with memory management and performance optimisation.
• No specific language or crypto requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and improve core distributed infrastructure.
• Optimise latency-critical execution paths.
• Design complex concurrent and multi-threaded systems.
• Build integrations with external protocols and real-time networks.
• Develop infrastructure orchestration and co-ordination systems.
• Profile and optimise performance-sensitive applications.
• Design resilient systems for unpredictable workloads.

Skills

Concurrency & parallelism

Memory management

Performance optimization

Tools

Rust

Job description

Understanding Recruitment's client in London is seeking engineers to build and optimise high-performance, latency-sensitive distributed infrastructure. You will own architecture, implementation, and production stability across the full lifecycle in a lean, technically demanding environment.

There are no specific language requirements; strong skills in concurrency, memory management, and performance optimisation are essential, with opportunities to work with Rust and engage in complex