Job Description
Be part of the team building high‑throughput, low‑latency financial systems where correctness, reliability, and observability are non‑negotiable. You’ll work on core services that process time-sensitive financial data and execute critical workflows under strict performance and risk constraints.
* Design and build latency‑sensitive Rust services handling high‑frequency data and decisioning.
* Implement robust, testable financial logic with strict correctness guarantees.
* Build and maintain streaming pipelines (real‑time inputs, event processing, and feedback loops).
* Optimize performance across CPU, memory, and network with profiling and benchmarking.
* Collaborate on API design, data models, and system architecture.
Qualifications
* A university degree in a relevant field of study (e.g. computer science, engineering, sciences, ...) or a comparable qualification.
* Extensive experience in our tech stack: Rust, Docker, AWS, Terraform
* Strong Rust proficiency (ownership, lifetimes, concurrency, async, error handling).
* Excellent systems thinking: latency, throughput, backpressure, and failure modes.
* Experience building high‑performance services in production.
* Experience with low‑latency systems.
* Strong analytical thinking, both in the technical and in the product domain.
* Excellent communication skills that are clear, concise, and targeted towards your audience - engineering, product, or other stakeholders.
* A passion for well architected, testable and documented code.
* Experience using coding agents (e.g., Codex or similar AI-assisted development tools) is a plus.
* Experience with domain-driven design and distributed architectures and/or microservices is a plus.
* Background in financial services and exposure to compliance or audit requirements in financial systems is a strong plus.
Additional Information
* Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
* Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
* Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
* Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing or career development sessions and spending your individual Education Budget
* Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
* International relocation support is provided if required
* Flexible vacation policy and the opportunity to work from abroad
* Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
* Monthly contribution of 50% for the ‘Deutschland Jobticket’
* Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital's PRIME+ Broker
* Enjoy flexible and discounted sports activities with Urban Sports Club