Nicoll Curtin Hiring! Full Time Rust Engineer in - Ricebowl

We are looking for a Rust Engineer with a traditional HFT background to join a high-performance engineering team focused on building low-latency trading systems and next-generation infrastructure across digital asset markets.

The ideal candidate will have experience working on performance-critical systems where latency, throughput, and reliability are paramount, along with strong engineering fundamentals and a deep understanding of low-level systems and Rust. This is an opportunity to apply traditional HFT expertise to the rapidly evolving world of digital assets.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance, low-latency systems in Rust.
• Build market data ingestion, exchange connectivity, order execution, and trading infrastructure.
• Optimise systems for latency, throughput, reliability, and scalability.
• Work closely with quantitative researchers and traders to translate strategies into production systems.
• Profile and optimise critical code paths, including memory allocation, concurrency, networking, and CPU utilisation.
• Develop tools and frameworks for simulation, backtesting, monitoring, and performance analysis.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical decisions across the trading stack.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience with Rust.
• Candidates must come from a traditional HFT / electronic trading firm
• Strong understanding of systems programming, concurrency, networking, and performance optimisation.
• Experience building low-latency or high-throughput systems.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, memory management, and computer architecture.
• Strong experience working with Linux.
• Experience with C++ or other systems programming languages is a plus.
• Experience with financial markets, electronic trading, or exchange connectivity is highly advantageous.
• Experience with crypto/digital asset markets, market making, or quantitative trading is a plus.