Software Engineer (C, C++, or Rust)

About the role

We are hiring high-caliber engineers with 3+ years of experience to build low-latency, high-throughput trading infrastructure in Rust, working directly under senior systems architects. This is a hands-on coding role on performance-critical systems — you will write, test, and ship the core code.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain high-performance backend services in Rust under the guidance of senior engineers
• Implement components of distributed, fault-tolerant systems handling high transaction volumes
• Write extensive unit, property-based, and simulation tests for correctness-critical code
• Profile and optimize code for latency, throughput, and memory efficiency
• Participate in design discussions and rigorous code reviews
• Debug and resolve issues in Linux-based production environments

Required Qualifications

• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science from an IIT or NIT (mandatory)
• 3+ years of professional software development experience in Rust, C++, or Java/Go with systems-level work; strong Rust proficiency or demonstrated ability to attain it fast
• Understanding of financial markets and trading systems — order books, order types, matching concepts, spot and derivatives (futures/options) basics; hands-on experience with trading, broking, or market data systems is a strong plus
• Excellent computer science fundamentals — data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, concurrency
• Solid grasp of multithreading and memory management; exposure to performance profiling and benchmarking
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts — replication, consistency, message queues (Kafka/NATS or similar)
• Experience with Linux, Git, and modern development workflows
• Strong problem-solving ability and hunger to work on hard systems problems

Preferred

• Competitive programming background (Codeforces/ICPC/CodeChef ratings welcome on the CV)
• Personal or open-source Rust projects
• Exposure to low-latency techniques — lock-free structures, zero-allocation design, binary protocols (SBE/Protobuf/FlatBuffers)
• NISM certifications, trading experience (personal F&O/options trading counts), or coursework in financial engineering
• Exposure to consensus algorithms (Raft), event sourcing, or deterministic testing

Growth Path

You will be mentored directly by senior systems engineers with deep exchange-infrastructure experience, with a defined progression to senior engineer ownership of subsystems within 18–24 months. This team is being built as a center of excellence in low-latency systems engineering in India.