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Senior Rust Engineer – High Frequency Trading (HFT)

A senior engineering role on high-frequency trading systems at a crypto market maker in its Capital Markets division. It owns latency-critical infrastructure and works with quants and traders.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Own latency-critical trading components end to end
Troubleshoot exchange connectivity, execution and market data faults
Improve performance, stability and observability
Review code and mentor engineers

What they ask for

Required

Production Rust, ideally with Tokio
Experience in systematic trading (HFT or market making)
AWS and Linux
Python scripting
FIX, REST and WebSocket protocols
Low-latency networking (TCP/UDP, DPDK)
Sound architecture judgement

Preferred

Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering tools

Education: Not stated
Experience: Senior-level experience in systematic trading systems
Languages and tools: Rust
Python
Linux/shell
Markets: crypto

How to prepare

Build a small Rust order-book or market-data handler with Tokio
Learn exchange connectivity: FIX and WebSocket feeds
Study latency measurement and kernel-bypass networking
Understand market-making and HFT risk controls

What to study

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