About the Role

The Rust Software Engineer will join the Infrastructure Team of a leading global quantitative investment manager, focusing on the ingestion, processing, and distribution of large-scale datasets. This role involves designing scalable services, promoting engineering best practices, and resolving production issues to ensure system reliability.

What You'll Do

Design, review, and implement scalable services and client applications.
Contribute to and promote engineering best practices, including code reviews, design reviews, testing, and performance optimisation.
Collaborate closely with stakeholders to understand business and technical requirements.
Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues to ensure system reliability and robustness.

Who You Are

Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and system design.
Proficiency in Rust is mandatory.
Experience building high-performance systems involving multithreading, caching strategies, asynchronous I/O, and low-latency processing.
Understanding of distributed data technologies and the trade-offs involved in systems such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, BigTable, Cassandra etc.

The Opportunity

You will work within a highly technical and collaborative environment where technology, data, and research drive investment decisions. The team tackles complex engineering problems at scale and continually pushes the boundaries of data infrastructure and distributed systems.

Requirements

Algorithms and Data Structures

Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and system design.

Proficiency in Rust

Proficiency in Rust is mandatory.

High-Performance Systems

Experience building high-performance systems involving multithreading, caching strategies, asynchronous I/O, and low-latency processing.

Distributed Data Technologies

Understanding of distributed data technologies and the trade-offs involved in systems such as Kafka, Elasticsearch, BigTable, Cassandra etc.