Senior Backend Engineer, Rust

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage production backend services utilizing Rust and other robust backend technologies.

• Take responsibility for backend components from initial design to deployment, observability, incident analysis, and ongoing upkeep.

• Gradually enhance existing systems to minimize technical debt while ensuring reliability and business continuity.

• Create clean, maintainable, production-quality code with a strong focus on correctness, testability, performance, and operational behavior.

• Troubleshoot intricate production and pre-production challenges across services, data flows, infrastructure, and deployment pipelines.

• Establish practical service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns that facilitate long-term maintainability.

• Enhance reliability, observability, monitoring, alerting, and deployment workflows for backend systems.

• Leverage AI-assisted and agentic coding tools to expedite exploration, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation while remaining accountable for final quality.

• Collaborate with frontend, product, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to provide complete and dependable product functionalities.

• Assess architectural alternatives and clearly communicate trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Participate in code reviews, design reviews, documentation efforts, and engineering practices that elevate team quality.

• Identify risks, simplify complex technical challenges, and make practical decisions in uncertain situations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Production experience with Rust is essential, including shipping, operating, debugging, and maintaining Rust services or systems in a real-world production setting.

• Strong background in backend engineering, including the development of APIs, services, distributed systems, data-rich systems, or platform capabilities.

• Solid architectural and systems design judgment, with the ability to evaluate service boundaries, reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability.

• Exceptional debugging, problem decomposition, and root-cause analysis abilities.

• Experience in evolving, refactoring, or modernizing existing systems without unnecessary rewrites.

• Capability to produce clean, maintainable, production-quality code and maintain high standards for testing, review, and documentation.

• Operational awareness in production settings, encompassing observability, incident response, deployment safety, performance, and reliability concerns.

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or equivalent platforms.

• Experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, and operational tools.

• Strong sense of ownership, autonomy, curiosity, and practical decision-making in ambiguous situations.

• Ability to articulate technical decisions clearly, including the reasoning, trade-offs, risks, and anticipated outcomes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Professional development opportunities

• Flexible working arrangements