(Senior) Rust Software Engineer - Banking Platform
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Job description
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits & conditions
- 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
- Flexible vacation policy and the 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'
- Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
- Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club
About the company
Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital is a financial technology startup with offices in Munich and London. Our aim is to transform the traditional wealth management industry, making first class investment services available to everyone. Our management team combines deep capital markets experience and e-commerce know-how with decades of academic research into financial markets. Our company has repeatedly been mentioned in the German & UK Press as one of the most promising fintech startups. We've also won an award as "Best German Robo-Advisor 2016".