Senior Rust Engineer – Payments Infrastructure up to £330k TC

🚀 Senior Rust Engineer – Payments Infrastructure

📍 London (In-person, full-time)

We’re working with a high-scale consumer platform operating at serious transaction volume, building mission-critical payments infrastructure used by hundreds of thousands of users daily.

This team ships to production every day, keeps bureaucracy low, and expects engineers to own systems end to end. If you enjoy high ownership, real money systems, and solving hard problems under load, this is worth a look.

What you’ll work on

• Building and scaling core payments infrastructure in Rust
• Payment orchestration across bank rails and cards (idempotent APIs, webhooks)
• Double-entry ledgers and reconciliation pipelines
• Real-time risk decisioning under tight latency constraints
• Event-driven, fault-tolerant distributed systems handling real transaction volume
• Reliability tooling: retries, circuit breakers, SLOs, monitoring and alerting

What they’re looking for

• Strong Rust experience in production (systems, backend, or infra)
• Background in payments, fintech, or financial systems
• Distributed systems mindset: consistency, fault tolerance, scalability
• Comfort owning complex systems end to end in a fast-moving environment
• Security-first approach to building financial infrastructure

Blockchain experience is a plus, not a requirement. This is a payments and systems role first.

Working setup

• London-based, in-person role
• Fast pace, high expectations, high autonomy

Compensation

• up to £250k base
• Equity and token participation
• Total comp ~£300k–£350k USD

If you’re a Rust engineer who wants to work on real payments at real scale, this is one of the strongest roles in the market right now.