Rust Developer - Perp Futures Trading Team

Location Zurich
Discipline: Financial Technology
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Lewis Piper

Contact email: lewis.piper@venturesearch.com
Job ref: 3903
Published: 18 days ago
Our client, a leading crypto market maker, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Rust) to join their Trading team and help scale the core infrastructure behind automated derivatives strategies.

The role focuses on expanding and strengthening the exchange connectivity layer, while continuously improving the performance and resilience of the existing trading stack.

What the role involves
  • Build and maintain low-latency, robust integrations with centralized and decentralized exchanges (CEXs/DEXs), with a strong focus on perpetual futures markets
  • Develop and maintain high-performance asynchronous Rust services handling:
    • Real-time market data ingestion
    • Order execution
    • Position and funding tracking
    • Reconciliation and risk-sensitive workflows
  • Contribute to internal trading logic, analytics, and execution optimization systems over time
  • Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and reliability in a perpetual futures trading environment
  • Contribute to multi-month infrastructure upgrades, including SDK-level improvements
  • Maintain and improve existing integration pipelines and deployment workflows
  • Collaborate closely with strategy developers and trading infrastructure teams to support internal tooling, trading bots, and latency-sensitive services
What our client is looking for
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience building and maintaining complex backend systems (e.g., deep tech products, algorithm-heavy platforms, financial applications)
  • Strong professional experience in Rust (essential), with a proven track record of writing performant, clean, and maintainable asynchronous code
  • Solid experience with asynchronous programming paradigms (e.g., tokio, async-std)
  • Strong systems programming mindset and understanding of performance optimization
  • Familiarity with PostgreSQL and relational database performance considerations
  • High attention to detail when working with third-party APIs, order lifecycle management, reconciliation logic, and failure handling
  • Strong understanding of exchange mechanics: order books, market data feeds, funding rates, liquidation logic, and trading flows
  • Trading experience (especially in derivatives or perpetual futures markets) is a strong advantage
  • Exposure to quantitative finance, derivatives mechanics, or stochastic calculus is a plus
  • Basic statistics knowledge
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment with a strong emphasis on quality
  • Proficiency in English