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GC-5338 Lead Recently added

Backend Lead

United Kingdom
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Leads backend architecture for a production trading platform handling real user funds, with single-writer state, idempotent workflows, atomic settlement, and fail-closed reliability controls. Builds low-latency Rust services using Tokio and Axum, including real-time gRPC and WebSocket data pipelines.

  • Normalized multi-source market data with freshness handling
  • Designed bounded-channel backpressure and workload-isolated job queues
  • Operated PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, Kafka, and Flink systems
  • Developed Solana programs for on-chain transaction workflows
Rust Tokio Axum Tower Async programming Concurrency
Interviewing now $130k-180k/yr
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JT-6966 Principal Recently added

Chief Product Officer

United Kingdom
18 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected electronic trading systems for FX and digital assets, including exchange connectivity, FPGA market-data adapters, trade capture, portfolio management, and risk controls. Also developed online machine-learning systems under extreme latency constraints and transactional platforms requiring extensive auditability and correctness.

  • Embedded Rust for performance-sensitive devices
  • OTC pricing and streaming infrastructure
  • PostgreSQL trade-booking database design
  • Mechanical-sympathy low-latency architecture
Rust Embedded Rust Python SQL PostgreSQL C++
Available in 3+ months £100k-150k/yr
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#HIRED Lead Recently hired

Staff Trading Systems Engineer

United Kingdom
6 years
Hybrid
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
Rust Tokio FIX PostgreSQL AWS Kafka Redis Docker
Hired Salary: $XXX,XXX
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AR-4825 Senior

Lead Blockchain Engineer

United Kingdom
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and implemented smart contracts on Ethereum using Rust and Solidity. Developed decentralized applications with a focus on security and efficiency.

  • Designed smart contracts on Ethereum
  • Implemented using Rust and Solidity
  • Focused on security and efficiency
High-Frequency Trading Concentrated Liquidity Management Tick-Range Optimization Order Book Venues Cross-Venue Arbitrage Automated Market Makers
Interviewing now $90k-250k/yr
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NY-9729 Principal

Founder - Tech Lead

United Kingdom
25 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Led development of distributed systems using Rust and Java, focusing on high concurrency. Spearheaded integration testing frameworks in Python to enhance system reliability.

  • Built distributed systems in Rust and Java
  • Focused on high concurrency solutions
  • Led Python integration testing frameworks
Rust Python Java AWS Google Cloud Azure
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AF-2305 Lead

Lead Blockchain Engineer

United Kingdom
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Led the development of blockchain solutions using Rust and Solana, focusing on cross-chain interoperability. Implemented AI agents for automated contract execution.

  • Developed smart contracts for decentralized applications
  • Integrated blockchain solutions with existing financial systems
  • Optimized transaction throughput on blockchain networks
Blockchain Rust Solana AI Agents Cross-Chain Smart Contracts
Interviewing now $150k-150k/yr
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UL-6804 Principal

Software Architect

United Kingdom
20 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed high-performance computing systems using Rust and C++ for large-scale simulations. Developed a custom Haskell-based compiler for domain-specific languages, enhancing code generation efficiency.

  • Pioneered multi-threaded processing techniques in Python
  • Implemented JavaScript-driven interactive data visualizations
  • Contributed to open-source projects for distributed systems
Rust C++ C Haskell Python JavaScript
Interviewing now £100k-120k/yr
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WK-5976 Principal

Senior Quant Developer

United Kingdom
20 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Developed quantitative trading systems using Rust and C++, focusing on high-frequency trading algorithms. Implemented smart contracts for decentralized finance applications.

  • Built high-frequency trading algorithms
  • Developed DeFi smart contracts
  • Specialized in quantitative finance systems
Rust C++ Go Python Solidity CosmWasm
Available in 2 weeks $200k-220k/yr
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AM-4349 Lead

Systems Engineer

United Kingdom
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered real-time systems using Rust and C++, focusing on performance optimization and reliability. Developed cross-platform software solutions with Java and Kotlin.

  • Implemented concurrent data structures
  • Optimized algorithms for large-scale simulations
  • Integrated hardware interactions in embedded systems
C++ Rust C Python Java Kotlin
Interviewing now £50k-65k/yr
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SU-6689 Lead

Chief Technology Officer

United Kingdom
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Led development of blockchain solutions using Solidity and Yul. Applied machine learning techniques in Rust and Python to enhance predictive algorithms. Directed teams in building secure smart contracts and decentralized applications.

  • Blockchain solutions with Solidity and Yul
  • Machine learning in Rust and Python
  • Secure smart contract development
Machine Learning Rust Solidity Yul C# Python
Available in 1 month Salary on request
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CJ-7091 Principal

Staff Software Engineer

United Kingdom
20 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered high-performance database systems optimized for complex query processing. Designed user-centric web applications with responsive interfaces and robust back-end architectures.

  • Integrated caching solutions to reduce database latency
  • Developed RESTful APIs for seamless client-server interaction
  • Implemented real-time data synchronization across distributed systems
Rust Go TypeScript PostgreSQL SQL React
Interviewing now £130k-160k/yr
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WF-8258 Lead

Embedded Software Engineer

United Kingdom
15 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built safety-critical automotive firmware using C, RTOS scheduling, real-time state machines, and ISO 26262/MISRA C practices on resource-constrained microcontrollers. Also develops Rust services with Axum, Tokio, SQLx, custom error types, and asynchronous concurrency from API design through persistence.

  • BLE GATT and custom wireless protocol implementations
  • CAN, UART, SPI, and I2C device communication
  • LittleFS and Dhara flash translation layers
  • Wear-leveling drivers for raw NAND and NOR flash
Rust Embedded C Python Assembler Axum Tokio
Available in 1 month Salary on request
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NP-3228 Principal

Principal Rust Engineer

United Kingdom
23 years
Remote
Freelancer

Works across Rust, WebAssembly, Python, TypeScript, Java, and Apache Spark. The available profile indicates a systems and data-engineering focus, but does not provide specific infrastructure scale, protocol domains, or project outcomes.

  • WebAssembly runtime development
  • Apache Spark data processing
  • Python automation tooling
  • TypeScript application development
Rust WebAssembly Python TypeScript Java Apache Spark
Interviewing now $180-255/hr
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AE-4003 Lead

Senior Staff Application Engineer

United Kingdom
13 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Architected a large-scale backend system using Scala and Rust, focusing on data consistency and fault tolerance. Developed complex SQL queries for real-time data analytics in finance applications.

  • Integrated Typescript for frontend-backend interface consistency
  • Enhanced Java-based microservices for scalability
  • Pioneered backend solutions for financial transaction processing
Scala SQL Typescript Java Rust Backend
Available in 1 month Salary on request
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JJ-2389 Senior

Rust Software Engineer

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Specialized in developing high-performance systems with Rust, emphasizing concurrency and memory safety. Contributed to open-source projects, enhancing libraries used in real-time data processing.

  • Developed cross-platform libraries in Rust and C++
  • Optimized TypeScript front-end applications for performance
  • Implemented real-time analytics systems in Python
Rust C C++ JavaScript TypeScript Python
Interviewing now $80k-90k/yr
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