Senior Rust Software Engineer - Banking Platform (m/f/x)

Be part of the team building high‑throughput, low‑latency financial systems where correctness, reliability, and observability are non‑negotiable. You’ll work on core services that process time-sensitive financial data and execute critical workflows under strict performance and risk constraints.

• Design and build latency‑sensitive Rust services handling high‑frequency data and decisioning.

• Implement robust, testable financial logic with strict correctness guarantees.

• Build and maintain streaming pipelines (real‑time inputs, event processing, and feedback loops).

• Optimize performance across CPU, memory, and network with profiling and benchmarking.

• Collaborate on API design, data models, and system architecture.

• A university degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. computer science, engineering, sciences, ...) or a comparable qualification.

• Extensive experience in our tech stack: Rust, Docker, AWS, Terraform

• Strong Rust proficiency (ownership, lifetimes, concurrency, async, error handling).

• Excellent systems thinking: latency, throughput, backpressure, and failure modes.

• Experience building high‑performance services in production.

• Experience with low‑latency systems.

• Strong analytical thinking, both in the technical and in the product domain.

• Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders.

• A passion for well architected, testable and documented code.

• Experience using coding agents (e.g., Codex or similar AI-assisted development tools) is a plus.

• Experience with domain-driven design and distributed architectures and/or microservices is a plus.

• Background in financial services and exposure to compliance or audit requirements in financial systems is a strong plus.

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers

• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients

• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools

• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget

• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes

• International relocation support is provided if required

• Opportunity to work from abroad

• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme

• Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’

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• Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club