Rust Engineer - FinTech

---base:meta-keywords:meta-viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0title: Engineer - FinTech---Engineer \- FinTech===================Are you a Software Engineer with hands\-on experience in and a passion for building reliable, high\-performance systems? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges and taking ownership of your code from development to production? Then we have the right opportunity for you!Our partner, a growing Swiss FinTech company operating a digital trading platform for institutional financial markets, is looking for a Engineer to join its engineering team in Zurich.Engineer \- FinTech===================### About the roleAs a Engineer, you will develop and maintain the core services of a trading platform, focusing on market connectivity, real\-time data processing and order routing. You will build reliable, concurrent applications and work closely with the infrastructure team to ensure stable and efficient production operations.Work tasks----------* Development: Develop and maintain production services in for market data processing, exchange connectivity and order routing. * Backend Architecture: Design concurrent, event\-driven systems that handle message ordering, retries, reconnections and failure recovery. * System Integration: Integrate external trading interfaces and APIs, ensuring reliable data exchange and connection management. * Performance Optimisation: Analyse and improve application performance, latency, throughput and resource utilisation. * Testing \& Reliability: Develop automated tests, monitor application behaviour and investigate production issues. * Technical Collaboration: Work with DevOps and infrastructure engineers on deployments, incident resolution and production support. ### Must\-Haves* Experience: At least 3 years of experience in backend development, systems engineering or a similar software engineering role. * : Hands\-on experience developing applications in , including async programming, concurrency and error handling. * Backend \& Networking: understanding of Linux, networking and distributed systems. * Problem\-Solving: Experience debugging applications, analysing performance and writing reliable, maintainable code. * Working Style: Independent, responsible and structured, with an emphasis on testing, documentation and production stability. * Communication: Strong English communication skills. and experience with financial trading systems are advantages. Your Benefits-------------* Technical Ownership: Take responsibility for core trading services used by institutional financial clients. * Modern Tech Stack: Work with and develop services where reliability, concurrency and performance are essential. * Greenfield Development: Build new components and contribute to technical and architectural decisions. * Engineering Development: Help establish and develop the engineering function in Zurich. * International Collaboration: Work closely with experienced software and infrastructure engineers across different locations. * Direct Involvement: Join a small engineering team with short decision\-making processes and direct influence on technical solutions. Our recruitment process-----------------------* Online Logic and Personality Test * First phone call * Online interview with our Recruitment Team * Online interview with the Hiring Managers * On\-site meet \& greet * Welcome to Academic Work! ![Academic Work Switzerland SA]() ![Academic Work Switzerland SA]()jidb75b003jm jit1145jm jiy26jm