Back End Developer

About Company

We're Young India's Investment Platform. Let us know if the app matches your vibe. Changing How Young India Invests.

Role

Backend Engineer (Rust)

Location

Bangalore (WFO)

Experience

4+ years of software engineering, including 2+ years of production Rust development. Trading experience is highly preferable.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop high-performance backend services primarily in Rust.
• Build asynchronous, event-driven systems with a strong focus on performance and scalability.
• Design scalable distributed systems for real-time market data and trading.
• Optimise applications for latency, throughput, CPU, and memory efficiency.
• Design APIs and internal communication layers.
• Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.
• Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews.

Required Skills

• 2+ years of hands-on production Rust experience.
• Deep expertise in Rust language features with the ability to write idiomatic, performant, and production-grade Rust code.
• Experience with Go-lang is preferred.
• Strong expertise in async programming, concurrency, channels, synchronisation primitives, and multithreading.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design, scalability, caching, fault tolerance, and high availability.
• In-depth knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, with strong hands-on experience in PostgreSQL.
• Strong understanding of networking and communication protocols.
• Excellent debugging, performance tuning skills in Linux.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Good to Have

• Experience with ClickHouse or other analytical databases.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux.
• Experience building trading, fintech, or other low-latency backend platforms.
• Knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging systems.