Rust Engineer (Infrastructure)

Location: Hybrid in London, UK (Onsite 4 days a week for 3 weeks of the month, 5 days for the 4th week)

Company

A leading quantitative technology firm focused on high-performance research infrastructure.

What you will do

• Design and build distributed backend systems using Rust.
• Develop core platform infrastructure from scratch to replace existing third-party platforms.
• Build scalable services to support large-scale research and data-intensive workloads.
• Collaborate closely with quantitative researchers and engineering teams.
• Ensure high performance and reliability of distributed systems across the full software development lifecycle.

Requirements

• 1-2 years of commercial Rust experience.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a background in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Experience building distributed systems or large-scale backend platforms.
• Practical experience with Kafka and Kubernetes.
• Must be able to work from the London office according to the hybrid hub model.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to join a long-term greenfield infrastructure programme.
• High level of ownership and technical influence over system architecture.
• Collaborative engineering culture with exceptionally high technical standards.
• Work on technology that sits at the heart of a quantitative research platform.

Hiring process

• 90-minute onsite technical interview with the engineering team.
• 30-minute final interview with the hiring manager.