About the role

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join a quick-paced engineering team.

You'll play a key role in designing, building, and optimizing high-performance backend services using Rust while collaborating with a distributed team of engineers, architects, and product stakeholders.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving complex scalability and performance challenges, building resilient microservices, and delivering secure, production-grade backend systems deployed in cloud-native environments.

Required

Skills

3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience with production-level Rust development

Strong understanding of Rust's memory safety, ownership model, concurrency, and performance optimization

Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend applications

Solid experience developing and deploying microservices

Deep understanding of distributed systems and service communication patterns

Experience designing, implementing, and documenting secure RESTful APIs

Knowledge of API versioning, authentication, authorization, and API best practices

Experience optimizing backend systems for performance, scalability,



and reliability

Hands-on experience with profiling, benchmarking, observability, and performance tuning

Understanding of caching, load balancing, horizontal scaling, and sharding strategies

Strong experience with Docker

Experience deploying and managing applications using Kubernetes

Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and auto-scaling

Experience with automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices

Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Excellent communication, collaboration, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Experience working in distributed engineering teams.

Bonus Skills

Experience delivering production-scale backend systems

Experience working on performance-critical or highly distributed applications

Familiarity with observability platforms, monitoring, and production troubleshooting

Experience contributing to engineering best practices and system architecture decisions.

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