Trading Systems Software Engineer

Rust Trading Systems Engineer | CeFi and DeFi | London On-site | Upt to £200 base + Bonus

Albert Bow is partnered with a crypto-native quantitative trading team hiring a Rust engineer to build and harden low-latency trading systems across centralized and decentralized order books. You will own exchange integrations, profile and tune critical paths, and keep a fleet of production trading bots healthy in a fast, high-ownership environment.

• Build Rust services for order handling, market access, and venue connectivity.
• Own integrations to multiple exchanges and keep them stable under load.
• Profile critical paths, remove latency, and improve throughput.
• Ship code to production, monitor it, and fix issues quickly.
• Improve data capture and observability for live systems and post-trade review.

• 2+ years building backend systems in Rust (or C++) with a focus on performance.
• Solid Linux fundamentals, networking, and concurrency patterns.
• Experience integrating with exchange style APIs and working with live market data.
• Comfortable operating production systems and writing tooling in Python when useful.
• Clear communicator who can work directly with traders and other engineers.

• Prior work on order book logic or execution engines.
• Experience with time series storage and dashboards for metrics and alerts.
• Familiarity with reliability practices like circuit breakers and backoff strategies.

• High ownership in a lean engineering team with direct impact on live trading.
• Competitive base salary with performance bonus.
• Benefits package including healthcare, retirement plan, and in-office perks.

If you are interested, please apply with an up-to-date CV or reach out directly to  Interviews are moving quickly.