Software Engineer - Rust

Company Description Trackk is an investment platform designed for individuals who are new to investing and those who are curious about building their financial future. Rather than catering only to experienced investors, Trackk focuses on making investing approachable and intuitive for Young India. The platform aims to help users navigate their first encounters with money through a user-friendly app experience. Trackk operates as a SEBI-registered entity, giving users added confidence in compliance and regulatory standards. The team is driven by a mission to align the product with the aspirations, lifestyle, and digital habits of young investors.

Backend Engineer (Rust)

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.