Senior Rust Engineer | Remote | FinTech
UMATR — City of London, GB
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About the Role
UMATR is partnering with a leading FinTech innovator on a mission to build next-generation financial systems — fast, scalable, and globally accessible. As a Senior Rust Engineer, you will be working on building and optimising low-latency, high-performance systems in Rust. You will also design clean and scalable APIs while enhancing existing systems for better performance and resilience.
Responsibilities
- Building and optimising low-latency, high-performance systems in Rust
- Designing clean, scalable APIs and modular architectures
- Enhancing existing systems for better performance, resilience, and maintainability
- Collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to deliver production-ready features
- Participating in code reviews, architectural discussions, and Agile ceremonies
- Contributing to internal tools, libraries, and automation pipelines
About the Candidate
We are looking for candidates who have:
- 5+ years of professional Rust development experience
- Strong grasp of systems programming concepts: memory management, concurrency, multithreading
- Solid experience with PostgreSQL and working with large-scale datasets
- Comprehensive knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles
- Proficiency with debugging, performance tuning, and profiling tools
- Clear communication skills and a proactive, team-oriented mindset
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle
Bonus Points For
- Experience with C++ or Java
- Exposure to crypto, trading, or finance-related platforms
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, etc.)
- Prior contributions to open-source or side projects in Rust
About the Company
UMATR is on a journey to revolutionise financial systems, focusing on modern technologies and best practices to ensure their solutions are fast, reliable, and user-friendly.
Why Join?
- Work on cutting-edge FinTech systems used globally
- Be part of a high-caliber engineering culture with strong mentorship and collaboration
- Fully remote with flexible working hours
- Opportunity to impact the architecture and direction of core systems