Senior Software Engineer

Senior Rust Engineer — Central London (Hybrid, 1 day/week) — Up to £100k + Stock OptionsWe're hiring for a fast growing AI content platform building serious infrastructure for global enterprise brands — think unifying and searching content across every system a big brand owns, powered by AI. Sub-50 in the team, strong engineering culture, real product-market fit already proven with major clients.The roleYou'd be the senior Rust voice on the team. Full ownership — architecture, build, deploy, run in production. No DevOps team, no separate QA.You'll set the standard for Rust across the team and review code from outsourced engineers, so you need to actually know what good looks like, not just have Rust on your CV.What you'll be doingBuilding and running production Rust microservices on AWSMaking the architecture calls — end to end, not just implementing someone else's specSetting the bar on testing, code review, observabilityReviewing outsourced engineers' work and pushing quality upWorking directly with the Engineering Manager and PMShipping via CI/CD, trunk-based, no dramaStackRust (Tokio, Tonic/gRPC, custom parsing layer), Protobuf, Envoy, NATS, Postgres, clustered Redis, OpenSearch, AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3), Terraform.ScaleReal distributed-systems scale — hundreds of thousands of concurrent events, millions of assets processed monthly. B2B.What we need from youProduction Rust — idiomatic async, solid on ownership/lifetimes, proper error handling.You've actually designed and run distributed backend systems at scaleEnd-to-end ownership mindsetgRPC/Protobuf and event-driven architecture experienceAWS comfortable (GCP/Azure fine too)Trunk-based dev, CI/CD, automated testingBonus pointsLLM/embeddings/ML pipeline experience. Background in content, media, or data-heavy platforms. Python or TypeScript/Node on top of Rust.PackageUp to £100k base + stock options, private medical, travel insurance, pension, travel and lunches covered on office days and full AI tooling access, including Claude Code.One non-negotiableRight to work in the UK. No visa sponsorship on this one.