Senior Rust Developer – Fintech / Trading / Infrastructure

Location: Birmingham / 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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