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

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend services using Rust
• Build scalable and reliable distributed systems capable of handling high request volumes
• Optimize application performance, memory usage, and resource utilization
• Design clean, maintainable, and well-specified software architecture
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to deliver production-ready solutions
• Participate in architecture discussions, code reviews, and technical planning
• Troubleshoot production issues and improve system reliability and observability
• Write clean, well-documented, production-quality code following engineering best practices

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional systems programming experience in Rust, C, or C++ (5+ years production Rust)
• Mandatory: hands-on experience with financial trading systems — exchanges, order books, matching engines, OMS/RMS, or market data systems (equities, F&O, FX, commodities, or crypto)
• Strong understanding of exchange mechanics — order types, price-time priority matching, spot trading, derivatives (futures/perpetuals), options, margining and liquidation concepts
• Strong experience building production-grade, low-latency, high-throughput backend applications
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and concurrent programming — Raft/consensus, replication, snapshots, deterministic state machines, exactly-once semantics
• Advanced concurrency: lock-free/wait-free structures, ring buffers, thread-per-core design, core pinning
• Strong understanding of networking concepts — TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, real-time communication, asynchronous networking
• Experience designing and implementing binary communication protocols for inter-service communication (SBE, Protocol Buffers, FlatBuffers, Cap'n Proto)
• Experience with microservices architecture and event-driven systems
• Experience with messaging systems such as Aeron, Kafka, NATS, or similar high-performance platforms
• Strong understanding of in-memory data structures and efficient memory management — cache lines, memory ordering, NUMA, allocation-free design
• Experience working with relational databases and caching systems
• Experience working in Linux-based production environments
• Familiarity with containerization and modern deployment practices
• Strong debugging, profiling, and benchmarking skills (perf, flamegraphs, Criterion)
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities; ability to work independently and take ownership of technical deliverables

Preferred Technical Experience

• Tokio, Tonic (gRPC), Serde, Tracing, Criterion, Cargo/Clippy/Rustfmt
• Aeron, LMAX Disruptor, Chronicle, or FIX engines
• Kernel-bypass networking concepts (io_uring, DPDK, AF_XDP); hardware timestamping
• Lock-free or wait-free programming techniques
• Options pricing / Greeks / volatility surface exposure