Rust Software Engineer - Banking Platform

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’
• 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