Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer, Fixed Term - Toronto

5 hours, 13 minutes ago
Contract
Senior
Software Development
DEPT®

DEPT®

DEPT® is a full-service digital agency that combines creativity, technology, and data to deliver innovative digital products and services, helping brands grow and thrive in the evolving digital landscape.

Media
1K-5K

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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