Rust Engineer - FinTech

Are you a Software Engineer with hands-on experience in Rust and a passion for building reliable, high-performance systems? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and taking ownership of your code from development to production? Then we have the right opportunity for you!

Our partner, a growing Swiss FinTech company operating a digital trading platform for institutional financial markets, is looking for a Rust Engineer to join its engineering team in Zurich.

Rust Engineer - FinTech

About the role

As a Rust Engineer, you will develop and maintain the core services of a trading platform, focusing on market connectivity, real-time data processing and order routing. You will build reliable, concurrent applications and work closely with the infrastructure team to ensure stable and efficient production operations.

Work tasks

• Rust Development: Develop and maintain production services in Rust for market data processing, exchange connectivity and order routing.
• Backend Architecture: Design concurrent, event-driven systems that handle message ordering, retries, reconnections and failure recovery.
• System Integration: Integrate external trading interfaces and APIs, ensuring reliable data exchange and connection management.
• Performance Optimisation: Analyse and improve application performance, latency, throughput and resource utilisation.
• Testing & Reliability: Develop automated tests, monitor application behaviour and investigate production issues.
• Technical Collaboration: Work with DevOps and infrastructure engineers on deployments, incident resolution and production support.

Must-Haves

• Experience: At least 3 years of experience in backend development, systems engineering or a similar software engineering role.
• Rust: Hands-on experience developing applications in Rust, including async programming, concurrency and error handling.
• Backend & Networking: Good understanding of Linux, networking and distributed systems.
• Problem-Solving: Experience debugging applications, analysing performance and writing reliable, maintainable code.
• Working Style: Independent, responsible and structured, with an emphasis on testing, documentation and production stability.
• Communication: Strong English communication skills. German and experience with financial trading systems are advantages.

Your Benefits

• Technical Ownership: Take responsibility for core trading services used by institutional financial clients.
• Modern Tech Stack: Work with Rust and develop services where reliability, concurrency and performance are essential.
• Greenfield Development: Build new components and contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
• Engineering Development: Help establish and develop the engineering function in Zurich.
• International Collaboration: Work closely with experienced software and infrastructure engineers across different locations.
• Direct Involvement: Join a small engineering team with short decision-making processes and direct influence on technical solutions.

Our recruitment process

• Online Logic and Personality Test
• First phone call
• Online interview with our Recruitment Team
• Online interview with the Hiring Managers
• On-site meet & greet
• Welcome to Academic Work!