Principal Rust Engineer

Principal Rust EngineerLondon Permanent HybridNcounter is supporting a global investment firm in hiring a Rust Developer to join a highly influential Product team. This group sits at the core of the business, building the distributed platforms, internal services, and compute frameworks that underpin trading, quant research, and large-scale data processing across the organisation.This is a deeply technical engineering role focused on high-performance systems, scalability, and platform reliability. You''ll work on foundational technology used by multiple engineering and investment teams, helping to shape the infrastructure powering a world-class trading environment.What you''ll do:• Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed systems and internal frameworks using Rust • Develop high-throughput services and tooling used across research and trading platforms • Work closely with investment and technology stakeholders to deliver robust, production-grade solutions • Contribute across the full software lifecycle, from architecture and development through to production support • Drive improvements in platform reliability, frameworks, compute solutions, observability, automation, and engineering standards • Operate within modern containerised and Kubernetes-based environmentsWhat we''re looking for:• Strong commercial experience with Rust development in complex backend or systems environments • Proven background building distributed systems or large-scale compute platforms • ..... full job details .....