About this role
Description:
• Design, develop, and maintain production Rust applications, including backend services, APIs, and system-level components.
• Write and optimize complex SQL queries for performance and correctness at scale.
• Debug and troubleshoot production Rust issues, including memory safety problems, concurrency bugs, deadlocks, and performance regressions.
• Contribute to frontend development in React when needed, including integration with micro frontend architectures.
• Participate in the design and implementation of microservice and distributed system architectures.
• Write and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end test suites following best practices.
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain services in containerized Kubernetes environments.
• Implement and maintain observability and alerting for mission-critical distributed systems.
• Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to team members at all levels.
• Mentor junior engineers on Rust best practices, systems design, and production engineering discipline.
Requirements:
• 5+ years of experience creating and managing Rust applications in production environments.
• Strong command of Rust ownership, lifetime, trait, and error handling patterns.
• Experience with the async Rust ecosystem, such as Tokio, async-std, or equivalent runtimes.
• Proficiency with Rust web frameworks and libraries such as Actix, Axum, Warp, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ability to debug production Rust applications, including panics, memory issues, deadlocks, and performance bottlenecks.
• Strong systems/backend engineering experience in a production setting; this is not a prototyping or research role.
• Experience designing and building APIs, background workers, data pipelines, or other backend services that run reliably at scale.
• Strong SQL experience, including complex joins, window functions, indexing strategy, and query plan analysis.
• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL in production.
• Familiarity with testing best practices, including unit tests, integration tests, and ideally property-based or fuzz tests.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how testing fits into a production deployment workflow.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized environments for deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting services.
• Experience with observability and alerting tools and practices, including structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting configuration.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, product managers, and leadership.
• Willingness and ability to mentor junior engineers through code review, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
• Located in Ontario, Canada, preferably Toronto.
• Available for a 3-month fixed-term salaried contract.
Benefits:
• Anticipated hourly rate of $75/hour based on relevant experience, expertise, and organizational impact.
• Flexible compensation structure based on a 40-hour workweek and leveling.
• Remote-friendly work arrangement (#LI-Remote).
• Global opportunities and access to strong tools and support across a large international team.
• Inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and workplace accommodations support.
• B Corp-certified, purpose-driven company culture.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.