Back End Developer

Role :- Backend Engineer (Rust)

Location :- Bangalore (WFO)

About Company - We're Young India's Investment Platform. Let us know if the app matches your vibe. Changing How Young India Invests.

Experience: 4+ years of software engineering, including 2+ years of production Rust development. Trading experience is highly preferable. We are building and improvising a high-performance, low-latency trading platform and are looking for an experienced backend engineer to build scalable, reliable, and concurrent backend systems.

Responsibilities

● Design and develop high-performance backend services primarily in Rust.

● Build asynchronous, event-driven systems with a strong focus on performance and scalability.

● Design scalable distributed systems for real-time market data and trading.

● Optimise applications for latency, throughput, CPU, and memory efficiency.

● Design APIs and internal communication layers.

● Collaborate with product, frontend, and infrastructure teams.

● Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews.

Required Skills

● 2+ years of hands-on production Rust experience.

● Deep expertise in Rust language features with the ability to write idiomatic, performant, and production-grade Rust code.

● Experience with Go-lang is preferred.

● Strong expertise in async programming, concurrency, channels, synchronisation primitives, and multithreading.

● Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design, scalability, caching, fault tolerance, and high availability.

● In-depth knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, with strong hands-on experience in PostgreSQL.

● Strong understanding of networking and communication protocols

● Excellent debugging, performance tuning skills in Linux.

● Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Good to Have

● Experience with ClickHouse or other analytical databases.

● Hands-on experience with Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, and Linux.

● Experience building trading, fintech, or other low-latency backend platforms.

● Knowledge of event-driven architectures and messaging systems.