Backend Engineer (Rust)
Wexford Pay · Payments infrastructure
Payment initiation against thirty bank APIs, each with its own idea of what a standard is.
Salary band
£75,000 – £95,000
- Location
- Manchester
- Pattern
- Hybrid
- Posted
- 21 Aug 2026 (13d ago)
- Process
- 3 stages, listed below
No account needed. One of us reads it before anything reaches the company.
The work
Every bank implements the standard slightly differently and changes it without telling anyone. This role is where that mess is absorbed so nothing downstream sees it.
Must have
- Systems programming in Rust, Go or C++
- Integrating third-party APIs that misbehave
- Retry and idempotency thinking
Nice to have
- Open banking
- Message queues
Interview process
If the client adds a stage after you’ve started, we’ll tell you, and you can withdraw.
- 01
Intro call
30 minTheir questions and yours. No competency framework.
- 02
Technical conversation
60 minWalk through something you built. No live coding.
- 03
Team and offer
45 minMeet the people you would work with, talk numbers.
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