Rust Developer – Contract OpportunityRole Overview

A leading technology-driven trading firm is seeking an experienced Rust Developer to join its high-performance engineering team. In this role, you will play a key part in designing, developing, and maintaining low-latency, mission-critical trading systems.

This opportunity offers the chance to work on highly complex technical challenges, optimise algorithms for speed and efficiency, and contribute to the architecture of next-generation trading platforms. You will be part of a fast-paced and intellectually stimulating environment where your work will have a direct impact on business performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-performance trading applications using Rust
• Write clean, scalable, and well-tested code
• Collaborate closely with engineers, quantitative analysts, and operations teams to deliver reliable solutions
• Contribute to system architecture and design, ensuring scalability, resilience, and efficiency
• Optimise applications for low latency, high throughput, and concurrent processing
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues within mission-critical systems

Requirements

• Proven commercial experience in Rust development
• Strong understanding of system programming, multithreading, and performance optimisation
• Experience working with networking, concurrency, and low-latency systems
• Familiarity with financial or trading systems is beneficial, but not essential
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment

Contract Details

• £850 per day – Outside IR35
• Hybrid working model
• Initial 6-month contract

Rust Developer | Contract | £850/day | Outside IR35