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Senior Rust Developer - Fintech / Trading / Infrastructure

£95,000 to £140,000a year

Job type
Permanent
Location
Manchester
Posted
2d ago

Job description

Location: Manchester / hybrid or UK remote

Salary: Permanent: £95,000 - £140,000 + bonus and benefits. Contract: competitive day rate

Type: Permanent or contract

Our client, a high-growth business in financial technology and digital assets, needs a senior Rust developer to build the low-latency, high-reliability systems at the heart of its platform.

What you'll do:

  • Design and build low-latency, high-throughput services in Rust
  • Own critical components such as trading, market data, payments or core infrastructure
  • Tune performance end to end: networking, concurrency and memory
  • Build distributed systems that stay correct and resilient under heavy load
  • Champion testing, observability and clean, maintainable code
  • Mentor other engineers and lead technical design discussions

What you'll bring:

  • Senior-level experience building production systems in Rust, including async Rust
  • A strong background in C++ or another systems language
  • Low-latency, networking and Linux performance tuning experience
  • Distributed systems experience in production
  • Cloud and containers (AWS or GCP, Kubernetes)
  • Trading, exchange, crypto/blockchain or fintech experience a strong plus
  • PostgreSQL and gRPC welcome

Benefits: Bonus, equity, pension and private healthcare (permanent roles).

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How this salary compares

We compare the midpoint of this range with the median of 38 IT adverts that come straight from employers and state a salary, and of 52 across UK tech.

29% above the IT median