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Senior Rust Software Engineer (Contract)
12-Month Contract | London (Hub Model)
A leading quantitative technology firm is looking for an experienced Rust Software Engineer to join its infrastructure engineering team on an initial 12-month contract.
This is an opportunity to work on a long-term greenfield programme focused on building a next-generation distributed storage platform from the ground up. The project already has an MVP in production and forms part of a wider multi-year investment into the firm's core research infrastructure.
Working alongside highly experienced engineers and quantitative researchers, you'll help design and develop critical infrastructure that underpins large-scale research and data-intensive workloads. This is a role for engineers who enjoy solving complex distributed systems problems and building platforms from first principles.
The Role
You'll join a specialist infrastructure team responsible for designing and delivering core platform services.
The team is building a bespoke distributed storage solution to replace an existing third-party platform, giving engineers the opportunity to influence architecture from an early stage. The work is highly technical, performance-focused and centred around creating scalable, resilient systems that will support the firm's continued growth.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Designing and building distributed backend systems using Rust
- Developing core platform infrastructure from scratch
- Building scalable services to support large-scale research workloads
- Working closely with quantitative researchers and engineering teams
- Designing reliable, high-performance distributed systems
- Contributing across the full software development lifecycle, from architecture through to production
What We're Looking For
- Around 1-2 years of commercial Rust experience
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Experience building distributed systems or large-scale backend platforms
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience designing and building platforms from first principles
- A background in infrastructure or platform engineering
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Previous storage experience isn't required, but you'll need experience building complex, scalable platforms and enjoy tackling challenging engineering problems.
Why Apply?
- Join a long-term greenfield infrastructure programme
- Work on technology that sits at the heart of a quantitative research platform
- Solve challenging distributed systems problems at scale
- High level of ownership and technical influence
- Collaborative engineering culture with exceptionally high technical standards
- Opportunity to join a growing team on a multi-year programme
Contract Details
- Contract: Initial 12-month engagement
- Working Model: Onsite 4 days a week for 3 weeks of the month, 5 days for the 4th week.
Interview Process
- 90-minute onsite technical interview with the engineering team
- 30-minute final interview with the hiring manager
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