Senior Rust Backend Engineer

TALENT & TALENT, LLC
United States
15 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Part-time (≀ 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
2 years minimum
Compensation
$54,000.0 - $72,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Audit Trail PostgreSQL Software Engineering Systems Integration Concurrency Backend Ethereum

Job description

  • Build and maintain backend services in Rust supporting lending and repayment flows.
  • Integrate backend systems with Ethereum and other EVM-compatible blockchains.
  • Work with on-chain events, transaction lifecycles, signing, confirmations, and smart contract integrations.
  • Design reliable ledger-style and financial data systems with strong auditability and transactional correctness.
  • Build and maintain secure APIs, authentication, permissions, and financial workflows.
  • Own services end-to-end, including design, deployment, monitoring, and production operations.
  • Collaborate closely with a small, high-ownership engineering team.

Requirements

  • Fluent in English, YOU MUST BE ABLE TO HAVE A FLUENT PROFESSIONAL CONVERSATION
  • IN ENGLISH
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 2-3+ years of production experience with Rust.
  • Strong experience with async Rust, concurrency, and failure handling.
  • Hands-on experience integrating backend systems with Ethereum or other EVM blockchains.
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design, migrations, and transactions.
  • Experience building financial, payments, lending, ledger, or other high-precision systems.
  • Strong understanding of idempotency, auditability, testing, and production reliability.
  • Experience working in startups or early-stage environments.
  • Highly autonomous and hands-on, with strong ownership of production systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Practical use of AI tools as part of engineering or productivity workflows.
  • Strong AI-aware / AI-first mindset and willingness to use AI to improve development speed and quality.
  • Comfortable working remotely in a fast-moving environment with evolving requirements.

Benefits & conditions

The salary range is $4,500 to $6,000 USD per month, depending on experience and seniority.

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