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Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer, Fixed Term - Toronto

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Canada

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Senior

Backend Engineer

Software Development

CI/CD Grafana Jaeger Kubernetes Microservices MySQL OpenTelemetry PostgreSQL Prometheus React Rust SQL

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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.

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