Rust Engineer – FinTech Trading Platform

About the role

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. As a Rust Engineer you will develop and maintain the core services of the trading platform, focusing on market connectivity, real-time data processing and order routing, and work closely with the infrastructure team.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain production services in Rust for market data processing, exchange connectivity and order routing
• Design concurrent, event-driven systems handling message ordering, retries, reconnections and failure recovery
• Integrate external trading interfaces and APIs, ensuring reliable data exchange and connection management
• Analyse and improve application performance, latency, throughput and resource utilisation
• Develop automated tests, monitor application behaviour and investigate production issues
• Work with DevOps and infrastructure engineers on deployments, incident resolution and production support

Required profile

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

What we offer

• Technical ownership of core trading services used by institutional clients
• Greenfield development of new components and contribution to architecture
• Help establishing and developing the engineering function in Zurich
• International collaboration with engineers across locations
• Small engineering team with short decision-making processes
• Hybrid working arrangements and a focus on sustainable working hours

The recruitment process includes an online logic and personality test, a first phone call, two online interviews and an on-site meet and greet.