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WF-8258 Lead Recently added

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
RustEmbedded CPythonAssemblerAxumTokio
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JZ-4417 Mid-level Recently added

Embedded Software/Firmware Developer

United Kingdom
3 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Developed embedded systems software in Rust and C, focusing on memory-constrained environments. Implemented cross-platform solutions using Python and C# for IoT devices.

  • Developed embedded software in Rust and C
  • Implemented cross-platform IoT solutions
  • Focused on memory-constrained environments
RustCC++PythonAssemblyC#
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#HIRED Lead Recently hired

Senior Embedded Rust Engineer

United Kingdom
8 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
Rustno_stdESP32ZephyrLinuxCARMRTOS
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JU-7221 Lead

Embedded Systems Architect

United Kingdom
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed firmware for low-power IoT devices using Rust and Embedded Linux. Developed real-time embedded systems software with deterministic performance in safety-critical environments.

  • Integrated Matter protocol for smart home applications
  • Optimized C++ code for resource-constrained devices
  • Implemented cross-platform communication layers in Go
RustC++GoPythonEmbedded LinuxMatter
Interviewing now £65k-75k/yr
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JT-6966 Principal

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
RustEmbedded RustPythonSQLPostgreSQLC++
Available in 3+ months £100k-150k/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++RustCPythonJavaKotlin
Interviewing now £50k-65k/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
RustC++CHaskellPythonJavaScript
Interviewing now £100k-120k/yr
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NB-1786 Mid-level

Software Developer & Engineer

United Kingdom
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Developed scalable microservices architecture for a high-traffic e-commerce platform using Rust and Go. Built a multi-threaded data processing pipeline, optimizing performance for real-time analytics. Designed and implemented a custom caching layer in C++ for financial systems, achieving a 40% reduction in latency.

  • Implemented PostgreSQL extensions for custom data types
  • Migrated legacy systems to cloud-native solutions
  • Developed RESTful APIs with comprehensive testing frameworks
RustGoC++JavaScriptSQLPostgreSQL
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SF-1383 Junior

Team Leader

United Kingdom
3 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Led a team to develop a distributed computing system in Rust, focusing on concurrency and fault tolerance. Designed algorithms for signal processing applications using Matlab, improving computational efficiency.

  • Integrated C++ modules for enhanced performance in simulations
  • Utilized C for low-level hardware interaction tasks
  • Automated testing frameworks with Python and C#
RustCPythonC#C++Matlab
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DX-1561 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Contributed to a multi-chain cryptocurrency bridge on the Ergo blockchain, implementing secure cross-chain asset transfers and integrations for Bitcoin Runes and Base. Designs event-sourced, domain-driven systems for real-time processing, using distributed messaging and containerized infrastructure across mission-critical environments.

  • Retrieval-augmented generation systems
  • Agentic workflow implementation
  • NATS and RabbitMQ messaging
  • Kubernetes and OpenShift operations
Software ArchitectureDistributed SystemsEvent-Driven SystemsReal-Time SystemsDesign PatternsDomain-Driven Design
Interviewing now $60k-100k/yr
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JK-6024 Junior

Computer Science Student and Systems Programmer

United Kingdom
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built an asynchronous Rust storage and streaming platform using Axum, Tokio, OpenDAL, and SeaORM, with PostgreSQL and SQLite persistence. Designed non-buffering payload delivery, transactional repository abstractions, schema migrations, and RFC-compliant parser crates for HTTP metadata.

  • Background cleanup service for stored objects
  • Multi-module entity relationship modeling
  • Standalone RFC 6266 and 8187 parsers
  • Open-source database infrastructure contributions
RustSeaORMTokioAxumOpenDALSerenity
Available in 2 weeks £24k-28k/yr
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CB-5998 Lead

Quant Researcher (Contract)

United Kingdom
20 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Re-engineers Delta One and ETF trading software from Python to Rust, targeting lower latency, stronger data quality, and production deployment on managed financial infrastructure. Background spans market data, payments, settlement, digital assets, Kafka, Flink, Spark, and recommendation platforms.

  • Built event-driven financial data systems
  • Applied DataOps and MLOps controls
  • Worked with vector databases and Elasticsearch
  • Managed infrastructure through Terraform and Nix
RustPythonScalaJavaC#C++
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GX-2872

Software Developer

United Kingdom
Hybrid
Employee / Freelancer

The supplied material documents capability assessments in auditing complex systems, diagramming, and structuring information but does not identify Rust development, software systems, or concrete engineering projects. No verifiable technical implementation details are available for evaluating programming depth or systems architecture.

  • Complex-system audit assessment
  • Visual modeling and diagramming
  • Information-structure analysis
Auditing and AnalysisModeling and DiagrammingStructuring InformationFacilitationIntentionalityAuthenticity
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GC-5338 Lead

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
RustTokioAxumTowerAsync programmingConcurrency
Interviewing now $130k-180k/yr
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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
RustWebAssemblyPythonTypeScriptJavaApache Spark
Interviewing now $180-255/hr
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