Hybrid Rust Backend Engineer — Mid & Senior (FinTech)

Avaloq Group; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 112,000 - 149,000; Full time

Job summary

Avaloq Group in Fort Lauderdale is hiring mid-level and senior Rust software engineers to join our growing R&D Lab. You’ll build Rust backend services for a SaaS banking platform, focusing on accuracy, scalability and reliability while collaborating with teams in Fort Lauderdale and Zurich.

Roles include onboarding with the Zurich team and occasional travel to client sites. The stack includes Rust with Tokio, AWS SDK for Rust, serverless on AWS, and API-driven architectures.

Qualifications

• Strong foundations in statically typed languages and backend design.
• Master’s degree or PhD in computer science, mathematics, physics or related field.
• Experience modeling complex financial data with precision and reliability.
• Strong analytical ability and quick learning of new tech and domains.
• Clear communication to technical and business audiences; travel as required.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and test Rust backend services for complex financial products.
• Translate financial rules into precise, efficient software with numerical accuracy.
• Build scalable, historized data models with asynchronous event-driven architecture.
• Contribute to design discussions, code reviews and technical specs, with strict quality standards.
• Own features end-to-end from implementation to automated testing, deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with clients and domain experts to analyze questions and feed insights back to product.

Skills

Rust

C++

Java

Scala

Kotlin

C#

Go

TypeScript

Education

Master's degree or PhD in CS/Math/Physics

Tools

AWS

Lambda

DynamoDB

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Job description

Avaloq Group in Fort Lauderdale is hiring mid-level and senior Rust software engineers to join our growing R&D Lab. You’ll build Rust backend services for a SaaS banking platform, focusing on accuracy, scalability and reliability while collaborating with teams in Fort Lauderdale and Zurich.

Roles include onboarding with the Zurich team and occasional travel to client sites. The stack includes Rust with Tokio, AWS SDK for Rust, serverless on AWS, and API-driven architectures.