Rust Backend Engineer for Low-Latency Trading Systems

Rapidtrade; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rapidtrade is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build high-performance trading systems in Rust. You will design and implement low-latency services, APIs, and order-matching components that power rapid trade execution.

You will work on high-throughput systems, optimize performance, and contribute to internal Rust libraries and tooling, with a focus on reliability and speed in production environments.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
• 2+ years of production Rust experience.
• Strong memory management and systems programming skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-throughput, low-latency trading systems in Rust.
• Build and maintain APIs handling millions of requests per second.
• Develop orderbook matching engines and execution systems.
• Optimize system performance and reduce latency across the stack.
• Implement robust error handling and fault tolerance mechanisms.
• Contribute to our internal Rust libraries and tooling.

Skills

Rust

Backend

Tokio

Async-std

TCP

WebSocket

gRPC

PostgreSQL

Redis

Memory management

Systems programming

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Rapidtrade is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build high-performance trading systems in Rust. You will design and implement low-latency services, APIs, and order-matching components that power rapid trade execution.

You will work on high-throughput systems, optimize performance, and contribute to internal Rust libraries and tooling, with a focus on reliability and speed in production environments.