IT & Software

Senior Rust Engineer

Understanding Recruitment

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will architect and build high-performance, real-time systems for coordinating drone swarms and processing sensor data. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to align backend infrastructure with robotic applications, improving efficiency and reliability in distributed robotic setups. This position offers the chance to shape a greenfield command and control center for unmanned systems at a rapidly scaling European tech leader. It combines cutting-edge software with hardware to deliver actionable insights in defense, security, and professional services.

Pay / Benefits
  • remote work (UK or Germany)
  • bonus
  • benefits
Responsibilities
  • Architect and build high-performance systems for coordinating swarms and sensor data
  • Develop real-time data processing and communication tools for robotic platforms
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to connect backend with robotics and sensors
  • Improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability of distributed robotic systems
Key requirements
  • 2+ years of production Rust experience
  • Experience with Tokio or other async runtimes (async.std, Smol)
  • Background in C, C++, or Core Java (or functional equivalents like Scala, Erlang, or Clojure)
  • Experience developing low-latency, high-throughput systems
  • collaboration with multidisciplinary teams
  • problem-solving under performance constraints
  • ability to work in fast-paced, scaling environment
  • Rust (production)
  • Tokio or async runtimes
  • real-time data processing

Reference: WJ-747_31191087

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