Senior Rust Engineer

Company: Understanding Recruitment
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Location: London
Job Description:

Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)

We’re working with a high-growth, well-funded European deep-tech company establishing a new Rust engineering team in London.

The business is developing next-generation software for autonomous and robotic systems, tackling complex challenges around distributed architectures, real-time communication and performance-critical software.

The Role

You’ll be developing and optimising the core Rust backend architecture powering real-time communication, mission planning and the coordination of autonomous robotic fleets.

Responsibilities:

  • Build high-performance backend systems in Rust.
  • Develop low-latency communication protocols for distributed robotic systems.
  • Solve challenges involving concurrency, multithreading and real-time processing.
  • Optimise system performance, scalability and reliability.
  • Collaborate with robotics and hardware teams on system architecture and integration.

What We’re Looking For

  • Experienced backend engineer with a minimum of 2 years of developing production software in Rust
  • Experience designing distributed backend systems.
  • Strong understanding of networking, concurrency and multithreading.
  • Experience optimising performance in latency-sensitive or real-time environments.

Previous robotics or defence experience isn’t needed.

Why Join?

  • Work on complex, performance-critical Rust software with real-world applications.
  • Join a new London engineering team with opportunities to influence technical direction.
  • Develop technology used in physical robotic and autonomous systems.
  • Be part of a rapidly growing European technology business with significant financial backing.

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Posted: October 25th, 2026