Rust Tech Lead/Senior Rust Developer

Backend Developer (4.5 – 7.5 Years Experience)

Company Description:

Idea Elan LLC is a product based company that provides comprehensive software solutionsfor

research facilities in Universities and Institutions worldwide.

Please visit www.IdeaElan.com for more information.

Key Responsibilities:

● Design and develop high-performance,scalable, and secure backend APIs and services

using .NET Core.

● Work withrelational (MS-SQL) andNoSQL (CosmosDB, MongoDB) databases to create

optimized data models and ensure data consistency and performance.

● Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.

● Collaborate with front-end developers and other teams to deliver high-quality software.

● Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code while ensuring quality standards.

● Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, optimizing code for maximum performance and scalability.

● Stay updated with the latest trends in backend development and cloud technologies to drive innovation.

● Optimize database performance and ensure data integrity.

Required Experience:

● 4.5 -7.5 years of experience in backend development.

● Strong experience with .NET Core and building RESTful APIs.

● Proficient with MS-SQL and experience working with NoSQL databases like Cosmos DB and MongoDB.

● Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud services (e.g., Azure Functions, Azure Storage, API Management, Azure SQL Database,etc.).

● Understanding of software development principles such as object-oriented programming (OOP), design patterns, and SOLID principles.

● Experience with version control systems such as Git.

● Strong knowledge of asynchronous programming, microservices architecture, and cloud-native application design.

● Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and deployment automation is a plus.

● Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.

● Ability to work in an Agile development environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

● Good communication and collaboration skills.

Review Criteria

Strong Backend Developer with Rust knowledge

·       3+ YOE as a Software Engineer

·       Expert level knowledge in Rust or Realtime experience in Rust

Role & Responsibilities

·       You will be working with the Rust compiler and will be responsible for compiling to alternate targets such as WebAssembly

·       You will be exposed with TDD for unit testing individual functions and integration testing for testing publicly exposed APIs

·       Working with a Git style workflow where every commit deploys to a stagingenvironment and merged pull requests deploy to production

·       Setting up CI/CD pipelines for testing and deployment (canary, staging) using Github actionsaccording to project needs

·       Developing software in Rust

·       Maintaining and improving existing rust codebases.

Ideal Candidate

·       Excited about working with Rust

·       4 -7 years of experience in shipping production applications

·       B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering from Tier 1 Colleges only

·       Entrepreneurial mindset with strong decision-making skills

·       Ability to move quickly without breaking things too much (we are dreamers)

·       Ability to work under immense pressure which is balanced by a sense of responsibility and ownership

Job Specific Criteria

• CV Attachment is mandatory
• How many years of rust coding experience you have?
• Do you code in rust daily?
• Have you shipped application to production in rust?
• Are you well versed with tokio, webassembly, leptos and actix?
• Have you contributed in Open source, or articles, patent, given tech presentations, or made an outstanding tech contribution apart from day to day work?
• Please share Github link in resume
• How much is your CGPA in graduation?
• Reason for job change?
• Provide a brief about the Candidate Background and Work Experience (Minimum 50 Words).Highlight achievement any extraordinary work they have done apart from regular BAU.
• This role is remote for now, but will require relocation to Dubai for WFO after a few months. Are you okay with this? -

Software Engineer, Low-Latency Systems

• Employment Type: Full-time
• Experience Level: senior-level (7–10 years)

About the Role

We are hiring a Software Engineer, Low-Latency Systems to design and optimize the core infrastructure powering our algorithmic trading systems. In this role, you will work on latency-critical execution paths where nanoseconds, cache lines, memory layout, and network behavior matter.

This is a hands-on engineering position for someone who enjoys building high-performance systems and reasoning deeply about correctness, throughput, and tail latency. Prior trading domain experience is helpful but not required—we value engineering depth and systems thinking above all else.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Build Core Infrastructure: Design, develop, and maintain low-latency components including order routing, market data handling, and execution pipelines.
• Optimize Performance: Profile and optimize critical code paths to minimize throughput and tail latency.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with quant and trading teams to translate complex strategy requirements into highly efficient infrastructure primitives.
• Drive System Design: Contribute to architectural decisions around threading models, memory layout, and network stack configurations.
• Ensure Reliability: Improve observability and operational performance across trading infrastructure. Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-mortems to keep systems running smoothly.

What We’re Looking For (Requirements)

• Experience: 7 to 10 years of professional experience in systems engineering, with a demonstrable focus on low-latency systems or high-performance computing (HPC).
• Language Proficiency: Strong, production-level proficiency in Rust and/or C++.
• Systems Depth: Comfort reasoning about memory management, lock-free data structures, compiler behavior, and CPU-level performance.
• Tooling: Experience using Linux performance tooling such as perf, flamegraphs, strace, or similar tools.
• Networking Fundamentals: Solid understanding of network stack behavior, including TCP, UDP, multicast, and kernel bypass.
• Problem Solving: Ability to debug complex production issues and optimize systems under real-world constraints.

Nice to Have (Bonus Points)

• Prior exposure to trading systems, market data feeds, or exchange connectivity.
• Familiarity with financial market protocols (e.g., FIX, ITCH, OUCH).
• Experience with low-latency networking technologies like DPDK, RDMA, or kernel bypass.
• Familiarity with co-location environments and latency-sensitive infrastructure.

Culture & Fit

We are looking for an engineer who takes ownership, thrives in ambiguous and fast-moving environments, and holds an incredibly high bar for correctness and performance. If you love drilling down into the lowest levels of software to squeeze out maximum efficiency, we want to hear from you.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 8+ years experience in web application development and architecture.
• ·Extensive experience using open source software libraries
• Strong experience in at least one MVC architecture or application of the pattern
• Solid hands on experience with Java
• Strong experience with SQL ( Oracle, MySQL, Postgres)
• Strong experience in Data Structures & Algorithms
• ·Must have built end to end continuous integration and deployment infrastructure for micro services
• Strong commitment to good engineering discipline and process including code reviews and delivering unit tests in conjunction with feature delivery
• Must possess excellent communication and teamwork skills. Strong presentation and facilitation skills are required.
• Self-starter that is results focused with the ability to work independently and in teams.
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GOOD TO HAVE:

• Prior experience building modular, common and scalable services
• Experience using chef, puppet or other deployment automation tools
• Experience working within a distributed engineering team including offshore
• Bonus points if you have contributed to an open source project
• Familiarity and experience with agile (scrum) development process
• Proven track record of identifying and championing new technologies that enhance the end-user experience, software quality, and developer productivity

• Write a significant amount of code for new and existing databases and related systems
• Scale and own these backend systems and databases
• Ship high-quality code and architecture
• Mentor engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
• Work with the founders to flesh out the future of the product
• Help shape the future of our engineering organization

Requirements

• A passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, replication protocols, file systems & correctness
• You have been building applications for 5+ years with C/C++ or Rust and have significant backend, database, or systems-level programming experience
• You have a BS/MS/Ph.D. in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You are comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, Slack, Zoom, etc. in the open and as a self-starter

Bonus points:

• Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals
• Experience with Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet
• Know how columnar databases work
• Know how to convert an algorithm to use SIMD instructions
• Good knowledge of Linux internals
• You’ve contributed to open-source libraries and actively participate in the development community (blogging, giving talks, meetups, tweeting, etc.)

What you'll do:

• Solve complex development problems and produce the highest quality code while striving to push technical boundaries
• Work closely with both external clients and internal, cross-functional product and technical teams to support multiple projects
• Maintain technical design documentation, communicating architectural and design changes to development teams
• Conduct regular design and code reviews, establishing and publishing quality and performance metrics
• Manage and foster a team-oriented environment, providing technical oversight to team members

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science
• 9+ years of experience working with .NET technologies, with advanced proficiency in C#
• A minimum of 4-5 years working with SQL Server Databases, designing new or altering existing table structures to meet project requirements
• Demonstrated knowledge of enterprise architecture and SOA services
• Strong background in web technologies and architectures
• Technical acumen and understanding of Agile technical practices and how they operate within an Agile organization
• Strong Communication Skills
• Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment

Preferred qualifications:

• Data-driven, analytical approach to problem solving and project management
• Experience working in a product-based IT company and/or banking and financial services company
• Familiarity with multiple implementation standards and methodologies, including Agile
• Experience working with ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, NoSQL, Message Queue, and building Reusable Libraries