Senior Software Engineer - Rust

Start Date: Aiming for 15/12/2025

Job Department/BU: Engineering

Job Function: Development

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer focused on the Rust programming language to join our innovative Engineering team. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in elevating our software development processes and actively contributing to high-quality product delivery. You will serve as a technical and mentoring leader, driving best practices across multiple teams and codebases.

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for driving the quality of engineering practices within a team, identifying and implementing cross-team improvements, and directly contributing to product development. This role requires technical leadership, mentorship, and a commitment to continuous improvement in our software building and maintenance processes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Model and advocate for exceptional code quality, proactively tackling complex and subtle system issues
• Employ systematic debugging to diagnose issues across related domains and foster a culture of observability and monitoring
• Work collaboratively across teams to build an environment that supports iterative, autonomous development and future scaling
• Act as a technical and prioritization leader, consistently pushing boundaries and exploring gaps in understanding within related domain areas
• Serve as a go-to expert within the team and wider organization across multiple codebases and languages
• Lead the design of components and their interactions, reviewing specifications from architects
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries, verifying and deploying programs
• Be available for emergency fixing of severity 1 issues on deployed products
• Write clear technical user manuals and comprehensive code documentation
• Mentor and grow other engineers, providing detailed guidance, task assignments, and deep technical reviews

Requirements

This role demands a strong technical background, deep expertise in Rust, and proven leadership capabilities.

Education / Experience:

• A Degree in Computer Science is desirable but not essential
• 7+ years of software engineering experience in languages such as Rust, Haskell, Javascript, or Scala, with a strong emphasis on Rust
• Practical experience with Agile software development methods
• Experience working with Git and Git workflow
• Knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms

Specialist Skills (Rust Focus):

• Strong, production-level experience with the Rust programming language
• Expert-level understanding of Rust's ownership model, borrowing mechanics, lifetimes, and concurrency paradigms
• Experience in developing web services and RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of distributed systems and network development
• Experience with concurrent programming and multithreading
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes)
• Understanding of continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Experience with software development methods such as test-driven development (TDD)
• Knowledge of cryptography protocols is a plus
• Experience with Web3 technologies is an added advantage

Benefits

• We offer a market-appropriate hourly rate based on your skills and experience
• Full-Time Commitment: 40 hours per week
• Generous Paid Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of holiday per year (for UK employees)
• Sickness Pay
• Contract Flexibility: We are open to discussing the best fit for your needs, offering terms for both a standard employee and an independent contractor

Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion. We genuinely appreciate your interest and wish you the best in your job search.

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