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Senior Rust Engineer UP TO £250K BASE / London

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ID: #1250
Posted: 2026-03-18
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Rust Engineer (Trading / Payments / Platform) Location: Hybrid London Compensation: £225k base + £350k total We are working with a high-performance engineering team building real-time systems across trading, financial infrastructure, and scalable backend platforms. There are multiple roles open across different teams, with responsibilities varying depending on your background and strengths. This is not a single-position hire, but a broader push to bring in strong Rust engineers across the organisation. The Opportunity This is an opportunity to work on performance-critical systems where latency, reliability, and correctness are fundamental. Engineers will be aligned to one of the following areas: • Trading • Working on low-latency systems, real-time market data, and execution infrastructure. This includes building and optimising systems that operate under strict performance and uptime requirements. • Payments (Greenfield) • Building new financial infrastructure from the ground up, focused on transaction processing, asset movement, and systems where correctness and auditability are critical. • Platform / Backend • Developing scalable backend services and distributed systems, including event-driven architectures and high-throughput pipelines supporting core platform functionality. What They Are Looking For • Strong experience with Rust in production environments • Background in high-performance, real-time, or distributed systems • Solid understanding of concurrency, multithreading, and memory management • Experience building or operating low-latency systems or high-throughput services • Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, WebSockets, APIs) • Experience designing scalable, reliable backend systems • Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-ownership environments Nice to have: • Experience with trading systems, market data, or exchange infrastructure • Experience with financial systems or payments • Exposure to crypto or blockchain environments Why Join • High-impact engineering work across multiple domains • Small, high-calibre team with strong ownership • Complex technical challenges with real-world impact • Clear opportunity to shape systems and architecture

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