Rust Engineer
One of our clients is looking to appoint an experienced Rust Engineer to join its Options trading team in London.
This is an excellent opportunity to collaborate on a specialist technology search within the digital assets and quantitative trading space. If you recruit across Rust, C++, low-latency engineering, quantitative development or capital markets technology, this role could be a great addition to your desk.
About the Business
Our client is a global leader in institutional digital asset liquidity, providing deep, reliable pricing across spot, futures, options, CFDs and NDFs, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Headquartered in London with international offices across Europe, Asia and North America, the business partners with brokerages, exchanges, banks, fund managers and other institutional clients worldwide. The organisation combines expertise across quantitative research, trading, engineering, pricing and risk management to deliver market-leading liquidity solutions.
The Opportunity
The successful candidate will join the firm's Options Trading team, working alongside experienced traders, quantitative researchers and software engineers to build and optimise the technology underpinning a high-performance options platform.
The role covers every aspect of the trading lifecycle, including risk calculations, volatility modelling, execution algorithms, automated hedging and trading research. Working in highly dynamic, 24/7 markets, the successful hire will help develop resilient, low-latency systems that support both liquid and illiquid options markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and optimise connectivity to new exchanges.
- Design and build infrastructure supporting high-performance trading systems.
- Support trade booking and regulatory reporting.
- Improve developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-based deployment processes.
- Enhance hedging models and automated execution strategies.
- Deliver low-latency, high-throughput trading infrastructure.
- Automate trading workflows to improve efficiency and risk management.
- Partner with Quantitative Researchers to develop and test new trading strategies.
- Build analytics tools to monitor execution quality and trading performance.
Candidate Profile
The client is looking for someone with:
- 7–10 years' commercial software engineering experience.
- Strong experience with Rust or C++, supported by solid computer engineering fundamentals.
- At least 3 years' experience developing Python applications.
- Strong SQL capability.
- Experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, S3), Docker and Kubernetes.
- Excellent Linux knowledge and experience working within globally distributed engineering environments.
Desirable Experience
- Messaging and IPC technologies such as gRPC, Redis or Kafka.
- Lock-free data structures, atomics and concurrent programming.
- Networking and distributed systems.
- Quantitative analysis tools.
- FPGA or ultra-low-latency trading environments.
- Experience building systems within electronic trading or financial markets.
What's on Offer
- Hybrid working from the London office (4 days per week).
- Competitive salary with two discretionary bonus payments each year.
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- A collaborative, high-performance engineering culture working alongside leading quantitative researchers and traders.
- Regular social events, volunteering initiatives and excellent long-term career development opportunities.
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