About the job

Senior Rust Engineer (Russian-Speaking) | Quantitative Trading | Fully Remote

I’m working with a highly profitable prop trading firm looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to join the team building its core trading platform.

The business operates across both digital assets and traditional financial markets, with a strong engineering culture and a large production Rust codebase.

Previous trading experience is not required.

Responsibilities

• Build core trading-platform components in Rust
• Work on exchange connectivity, data pipelines and algorithmic trading infrastructure
• Improve latency, throughput, reliability and determinism
• Build observability into production systems through metrics, tracing and alerting
• Investigate production issues and drive fixes through to resolution
• Contribute to architecture, feature design and technical decision-making
• Build and maintain automated, integration and performance testing

Skills & experience

• 5+ years building performance-sensitive or highly reliable systems
• Strong commercial Rust experience
• Concurrency and parallel programming
• Distributed systems
• Strong understanding of software architecture and performance optimisation
• Comfortable owning systems through to production
• Fluent in Russian

What’s on offer

• Fully remote internationally
• High engineering ownership with very little bureaucracy
• No Quantitative trading experience required - great way to get in to the industry
• Large-scale production Rust environment