Senior Rust Engineer - Banking

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About the Role

As a Senior Banking Engineer you will be working on building out a new banking and payments platform from the ground up using Rust. You’ll be engaged in prototyping new services in Rust with the goal of taking these services to production over the next 6 - 12 months. We are looking for self-driven, well-organized engineers that are comfortable having technical and non-technical discussions. As part of a newly formed team there will be opportunity to take ownership of new services and problems.

Responsibilities

Design and implement of microservices in Rust connecting to financial systems and payment networks

Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code. Be ready to talk about what this means to you

Analyze requirements, vendor APIs, and translate into application designs

Implementation of security and data protection systems

Communicate with non-technical team members of project status

Requirements

In a remote work environment

With high-precision financial computing

Writing networked code in Rust

Writing asynchronous code in Rust

Docker, or comparable container technologies

Experience working in banking and payments

Nice to have

Experience with GraphQL or gRPC

Understanding or payment schemes like wire, ACH, SEPA, etc...

Experience with Kubernetes orchestration tools

Open source contributions in any language

Location Tagging: #US #EU

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