About the Role

The Software Engineer role at Arcus Search involves building core engineering infrastructure in Rust for a technology-led investment firm. This hands-on position focuses on developing high-performance distributed systems and solving complex problems related to concurrency, scalability, and performance.

What You'll Do

Building high-performance distributed systems in Rust
Developing core infrastructure used by engineering teams across the business
Solving complex concurrency, multithreading and performance problems
Improving the scalability, reliability and efficiency of existing systems
Designing new services and taking ownership through to production
Working with strong engineers on technically difficult problems at significant scale

Who You Are

Commercial Rust development experience
Strong distributed systems or systems engineering background
Experience with concurrency and multithreaded software
Good understanding of algorithms, data structures and performance
Comfortable working close to the system and understanding how software behaves in production
Strong Linux experience

Requirements

Rust development experience

Commercial experience in developing software using Rust.

Distributed systems knowledge

Strong background in distributed systems or systems engineering.

Concurrency expertise

Experience with concurrency and multithreaded software.

Algorithms understanding

Good understanding of algorithms, data structures, and performance.

Linux experience

Strong experience working with Linux systems.