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WZ-4811 Lead Recently added

Software Engineer / Data Engineer

Canada
24 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered high-performance data processing pipelines using Scala and Rust, focusing on real-time analytics. Designed and maintained distributed systems for large-scale data ingestion and processing.

  • Built microservices architecture using Go and Java
  • Integrated TypeScript for front-end data visualization
  • Optimized C++ algorithms for data compression
JavaScalaRustGoC++TypeScript
Interviewing now $110k-140k/yr
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KZ-7471 Principal Recently added

Staff Protocol Engineer

United States
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed MLS group-state features and bidirectional streaming transport for secure messaging, including ordered delivery, heartbeats, reconnects, external invites, and per-field permissions. Reduced 100-device group-invite storage from 8 MB to 200 KB and reduced full-group database loading from 13 reads to one.

  • Migrated core product infrastructure into Rust
  • Built FFI boundaries for untrusted drivers
  • Enabled PostgreSQL through asynchronous database traits
  • Shipped four protocol improvement proposals
RustGoTypeScriptSwiftKotlinJava
Interviewing now $240k-280k/yr
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#HIRED Staff Recently hired

Senior Data Systems Engineer

Canada
8 years
Remote
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
RustDataFusionDelta LakePostgreSQLGCPDockerArrowKafka
Hired Salary: $XXX,XXX
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LQ-2209 Lead

Lead Software Engineer

United States
32 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed a Kafka-fed Rust caching service for a sanctions platform whose nightly database workload reached approximately 21 billion requests. The architecture reduced that traffic to fewer than four million requests while supporting migration from legacy sanctions workflows into a PostgreSQL-backed platform.

  • Built real-time backend services with Python and Node.js
  • Developed React interfaces for sanctions operations
  • Modernized end-of-life application workflows
  • Eliminated recurring manual database updates
PythonRustJavaScriptNode.jsReactKafka
Available in 2 weeks $180k-225k/yr
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WS-6692 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

Canada
12 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems for real-time trading, regulated payments, and firehose-scale data ingestion using functional Scala and concurrent streaming architectures. Has modernized legacy JVM platforms into independently deployable services and operated production workloads across public-cloud Kubernetes environments.

  • Akka-to-Pekko zero-downtime migration
  • Kafka and Kinesis event pipelines
  • Cats-Effect, FS2, and ZIO
  • PostgreSQL service backends
ScalaCats-EffectFS2ZIOMonixJava
Available in 2 weeks Salary on request
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HE-9619 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

Netherlands
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designs distributed event-streaming and data-platform systems for payments and personalized media, including Kafka and ClickHouse pipelines processing billions of records. Production work spans Scala, Java, Kotlin, and Rust services with migrations across messaging, storage, and service architectures.

  • Implemented event-sourced and CQRS service architectures
  • Used Kafka, gRPC, and Protobuf for interservice transport
  • Deployed workloads through Kubernetes and Argo CD
  • Instrumented systems with Prometheus, Grafana, and Jaeger
Scala 2Scala 3JavaRustKotlinTypeScript
Available in 2 months €90k-95k/yr
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AC-6625 Senior

Software Developer

United Kingdom
5 years
Hybrid
Employee

Built data pipelines using SQL and Snowflake for large-scale data analysis. Developed containerized applications with Docker and Podman, enhancing deployment efficiency.

  • Integrated R for statistical data analysis
  • Optimized Python scripts for data transformation
  • Developed scalable data solutions for enterprise needs
PythonRSQLPostgreSQLSnowflakeNatural Language Processing
Available in 1 month $50k-75k/yr
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AB-4745 Staff

Rust Engineer

Croatia
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed a stable ABI for cross-language Rust interoperability, including an intermediate representation, generated type conversions, validity checks, opaque types, generics, custom DSTs, and runtime tagged dispatch. Added WebAssembly smart-contract execution to Hyperledger Iroha and corrected consensus, fault-handling, and peer-synchronization defects.

  • Unsafe Rust and memory-layout engineering
  • Procedural macro and code-generation tooling
  • cbindgen associated-type resolution
  • Concurrent Java ETL and stream replication
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AL-6502 Senior

Lead Software Engineer

Germany
7 years
Flexible
Employee

Architected distributed financial-data and logistics systems using Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and ClickHouse. Built trading and investment product workflows, modernized legacy services, and delivered infrastructure with Kubernetes, AWS, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Jaeger.

  • Real-time financial data aggregation
  • RabbitMQ workflow automation
  • STUN/TURN networking services
  • Grafana and ELK operational dashboards
GoPythonRustPostgreSQLRedisMySQL
Available in 2 weeks €80k-90k/yr
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WK-5976 Lead

Head of Quant Engineering

Spain
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
RustC++GoPythonBashR
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SL-1631 Senior

Quant Dev

France
8 years
Flexible
Employee

Engineered quantitative trading algorithms using Python and Rust, optimizing execution on cloud platforms. Automated deployment pipelines with Kubernetes for seamless CI/CD.

  • Integrated AWS for cloud-based computation
  • Utilized Docker for containerized environments
  • Implemented robust CI/CD with GitLab
PythonDockerKubernetesGitLab CI/CDRustAWS
Available in 2 weeks €90k-100k/yr
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BM-9587 Lead

Senior Quant Developer, Trading & Data Infrastructure

Slovenia
16 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and owned low-latency execution, market-data, simulation, and quantitative research infrastructure for multi-asset trading. Applied Rust and C++20 performance engineering across NUMA-aware optimization, lock-free queues, CPU affinity, IRQ tuning, binary feeds, FIX, and lossless gigabit packet capture.

  • CEX, DEX, and DeFi trading systems
  • MiFID II and PCI DSS exchange architecture
  • perf, VTune, and flame-graph profiling
  • Memory-cache and scheduler optimization
RustPythonC++20GoCLow-latency systems
Available in 1 month Salary on request
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TK-2369 Mid-level

Data Engineer

Tunisia
4 years
Flexible
Employee

Developed backend services with Rust and Actix-Web for high-performance web applications. Utilized Tokio for building asynchronous systems.

  • Optimized SQL databases for data integrity
  • Implemented Python scripts for data manipulation
  • Enhanced TypeScript for frontend solutions
PythonScalaRustSQLTypeScriptBash
Available in 3+ months €50k-60k/yr
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VS-3060 Principal

Senior Backend & Systems Engineer

Poland
16 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built a Rust complex-event-processing engine that composes reusable processing blocks into Kafka-consuming and Kafka-producing deployments. The system uses Tokio tasks, NATS stage transport, embedded Python execution, and dependency-aware input routing to reproduce production-grade stream-processing architecture.

  • Implemented bidirectional PyO3 type marshalling across the FFI boundary
  • Managed Python GIL boundaries for in-process block execution
  • Developed Linux filesystem drivers and embedded firmware
  • Built distributed event-driven backends in Scala, Java, and Go
RustTokioPyO3Actix WebSQLxrdkafka
Available in 1 month $100k-130k/yr
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AZ-4592 Lead

Lead Engineer - Individual Contributor

India
12 years
Remote
Employee

Designs and operates real-time data infrastructure for national-scale payment processing, humanitarian systems, and business intelligence platforms. Builds Kafka-driven pipelines, Rust and Python microservices, and low-latency storage layers using ScyllaDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Parquet, and Kubernetes.

  • Implemented streaming transformations with PySpark
  • Used Tokio for asynchronous Rust services
  • Built gRPC APIs for distributed backends
  • Operated observability through Grafana and Prometheus
KafkaEvent-Driven PipelinesPySparkScyllaDBRedisPostgreSQL
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