Rust Engineer - Trading

About the Role

Join our Options High-Frequency Trading (HFT) team as a Rust or C++ Engineer to drive continuous improvements in trading infrastructure and system performance. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact within a rapidly growing, global, fully remote business unit.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimise low-latency options trading systems.
• Collaborate with quants, traders, and engineers to enhance trading strategies.
• Maintain and improve trading infrastructure, ensuring high performance and stability.
• Design and implement efficient, scalable, and resilient trading solutions.
• Troubleshoot and enhance exchange connectivity and execution speed.
• Support functional and component testing for critical trading components.

Requirements

• Strong experience in Rust and/or C++ (C background also considered).
• Prior experience in a trading environment (HFT, Market Making, Prop Trading, or similar).
• Eagerness to become an expert in Rust (if not already).
• Experience with PostgreSQL databases and protobuf-based protocols or similar.
• Exchange connectivity experience and/or FPGA technologies (strongly preferred).
• Take full ownership and responsibility for your work, writing high-quality, maintainable code.
• Approach challenges with a problem-solving entrepreneurial mindset and take initiative.
• Respond strategically to technical and operational challenges, ensuring robust infrastructure.
• Continuously seek to improve your technical skills and knowledge.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in High-Frequency Options Trading and low-latency systems.