Rust Software Engineer – Low-Latency EMS (London Hybrid)

Elwood Technologies; London; Hybrid; NOK 825,000 - 1,205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid medical benefits

Ubereats allowance

Job summary

Elwood Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer to design and optimise a next-generation multi-region EMS platform. You will join the Engineering Team in London, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput backend systems for a multi-region, multi-tenanted EMS platform.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of backend experience with strong Rust expertise and hands-on distributed systems knowledge, plus cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years backend engineering in concurrent, performance sensitive systems.
• Hands-on production Rust expertise with ability to defend design of non-trivial Rust systems.
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures (Nats, Aeron).
• Knowledge of multi-tenancy patterns and best practices.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and multi-region deployments.
• A working knowledge of databases and caches (PostgreSQL, Redis, Zookeeper).
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).

Responsibilities

• Platform Development: design and implement low-latency, high-throughput systems for a multi-region, multi-tenanted EMS platform.
• Latency Optimisation: analyse and optimise critical paths to reduce latency and improve performance.
• Distributed Systems: maintain distributed, fault-tolerant systems with high availability across regions.
• Monitoring & Observability: implement real-time monitoring, telemetry and alerting systems.
• Collaboration: work with product, QA and infra teams to align solutions with requirements and deployments.
• Code reviews: review teammates' code with rigour and raise team standards.
• AI-Assisted Development: use AI coding assistants heavily and critically.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Multi-tenancy

Cloud platforms

PostgreSQL

Observability tools

Tools

NATS

Aeron

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Job description

Elwood Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer to design and optimise a next-generation multi-region EMS platform. You will join the Engineering Team in London, focusing on low-latency, high-throughput backend systems for a multi-region, multi-tenanted EMS platform.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of backend experience with strong Rust expertise and hands-on distributed systems knowledge, plus cloud deployments.