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# Senior Rust Engineer

- **Company:** Understanding Recruitment
- **Location:** Greater London, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Communications Protocols, Distributed Systems, Robotic Automation Software, Systems Architecture, WebRTC, Multithreading, Real Time Systems, Concurrency, Backend, Low Latency
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.understandingrecruitment.com/job/senior-rust-engineer-9280/

## About the Role

* Experienced backend engineer with a minimum of 2 years of developing production software in Rust
 * Experience designing distributed backend systems.
 * Strong understanding of networking, concurrency and multithreading.
 * Experience optimising performance in latency-sensitive or real-time environments.

Previous robotics or defence experience isn't needed.

## Description

Senior Rust Backend Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)

We're working with a high-growth, well-funded European deep-tech company establishing a new Rust engineering team in London.

The business is developing next-generation software for autonomous and robotic systems, tackling complex challenges around distributed architectures, real-time communication and performance-critical software.

The Role

You'll be developing and optimising the core Rust backend architecture powering real-time communication, mission planning and the coordination of autonomous robotic fleets.

Responsibilities:

 * Build high-performance backend systems in Rust.
 * Develop low-latency communication protocols for distributed robotic systems.
 * Solve challenges involving concurrency, multithreading and real-time processing.
 * Optimise system performance, scalability and reliability.
 * Collaborate with robotics and hardware teams on system architecture and integration.

What We're Looking For

 * Experienced backend engineer with a minimum of 2 years of developing production software in Rust
 * Experience designing distributed backend systems.
 * Strong understanding of networking, concurrency and multithreading.
 * Experience optimising performance in latency-sensitive or real-time environments.

Previous robotics or defence experience isn't needed.

Why Join?

 * Work on complex, performance-critical Rust software with real-world applications.
 * Join a new London engineering team with opportunities to influence technical direction.
 * Develop technology used in physical robotic and autonomous systems.
 * Be part of a rapidly growing European technology business with significant financial backing.