Client:

Scientific Quant Fund

Compensation:

Up to £225,000 Base + Bonus

Location:

London (Hybrid)

Overview

A scientific quant fund is seeking a high-performance Rust Software Engineer to join a core technology team building highly available, distributed systems that underpin real-time trading and data platforms. This is a greenfield, engineering-led environment where system reliability, throughput, and latency are critical to trading performance. The firm operates a technology-first culture, with a strong focus on correctness, performance, and scalable system design.

The Role

As a Rust Software Engineer, you will design and build resilient, low-latency distributed systems that operate under extreme load and strict availability requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and developing high-performance distributed systems in Rust
• Building highly available backend services capable of handling extreme throughput and concurrency
• Implementing fault-tolerant architectures to ensure system reliability in live trading environments
• Developing core infrastructure for real-time data ingestion, processing, and distribution
• Working closely with traders, quantitative researchers, and infrastructure teams to deliver performance-critical systems

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience as a Rust Software Engineer
• Prior experience in C++ is beneficial
• Proven experience building highly available, distributed systems
• Solid understanding of concurrency, parallelism, and systems-level programming
• Experience designing services for high throughput and low latency
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
• Background in financial systems, trading, or real-time platforms is advantageous but not essential

What’s on Offer

• Ownership of greenfield distributed systems in a performance-critical environment
• Market-leading compensation and bonus structure
• Access to bleeding-edge tooling and modern systems architecture
• Rapid career progression in a highly technical, low-bureaucracy organisation
• Strong emphasis on engineering excellence, reliability, and scalability
• A balanced working environment with hybrid flexibility

If you are a performance-focused Rust Software Engineer looking to build highly available distributed systems within a top-tier quant trading environment, please apply to be considered or email rdelaney@hunterbond.com for more information.