Rust Engineer – HFT

Senior Rust Engineer – High Frequency Trading

Location: Dubai, UAE

Sector: Digital Assets / Quant Trading / HFT

Employment Type: Full-time

We are partnering with a high-performance crypto trading firm building ultra-low latency systems for digital asset markets. The firm operates sophisticated algorithmic trading strategies across global exchanges and is investing heavily in next-generation trading infrastructure.

They are looking for a Rust Engineer to help design and build the core systems that power their trading platform. This role sits close to the trading engine and focuses on developing highly optimised, production-grade systems capable of operating at extremely high throughput with minimal latency.

The Role

You will work alongside quant researchers, traders and infrastructure engineers to develop the firm’s next generation trading infrastructure. The work focuses on building performant, reliable systems that handle real-time market data and high-volume order execution.

This is an opportunity to work in a deeply technical environment where performance, efficiency and reliability are critical.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop low-latency trading infrastructure in Rust
• Build systems that process high-throughput real-time market data
• Implement highly optimised networking and messaging systems
• Contribute to order execution, exchange connectivity and trading engine components
• Work closely with quant researchers and traders to optimise performance
• Improve system reliability, latency and scalability across the trading stack

Requirements

• Strong experience with Rust in production systems
• Background building high-performance or low-latency software
• Solid understanding of systems programming, concurrency and memory management
• Experience working with high throughput distributed systems
• Familiarity with networking protocols and performance optimisation
• Experience in trading, financial markets, HFT or crypto trading is highly beneficial

Nice to Have

• Experience with C++ or other systems languages
• Knowledge of market data feeds and exchange APIs
• Experience working in HFT, proprietary trading or market making environments
• Understanding of Linux performance tuning and networking

Why Join

• Work on cutting edge trading infrastructure
• Collaborate with high calibre engineers and quantitative researchers
• Exposure to global digital asset markets and high performance systems
• Competitive compensation and relocation support to Dubai if required

If you enjoy building extremely fast systems and solving complex performance problems, this role offers the chance to work at the core of a modern trading platform.