Senior Rust Engineer

2 months ago


New York, United States Jobot Full time
Job DescriptionJob DescriptionWell-Funded Startup Seeks Backend Engineer to Join Growing Team

This Jobot Job is hosted by: Sydney Weaver
Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Apply Now" buttonand sending us your resume.
Salary: $70 - $150 per hour

A bit about us:



Well-Funded, venture-backed startup is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing team You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to build and implement core services, APIs, and SDKs for a scalable, event-driven shared ledger platform. You’ll have the opportunity to design and optimize systems built on a microservices architecture, contributing to the development of secure and performant software solutions.

Why join us?



This position is hybrid or to local remote for candidates in the NYC Tri-State Area. They are open to contract-to-hire or a long term contract. Jobot offers benefits for the contract portion (listed below). Once converted to full-time, you would be covered under their employee benefits.

Jobot W2 benefits, effective the first of the month following date of hire (if you start before Sept 30th, benefits would start on Oct 1st):
  • Platinum Health Insurance Provider: Provider: Blue Shield of CA
  • PPO – 75% Paid for Consultant and 25% for Dependents
  • Dental Provider: Guardian
  • Vision Provider: Guardian
  • Health Advocacy Service : Balance Care by ENI
  • Life/Accidental Death & Disability Provider: Guardian
  • Guideline 401K


Job Details



Key Responsibilities
  • Design and implement secure, high-performance backend systems, APIs, and SDKs.
  • Build and optimize integrations using messaging protocols across multiple languages.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance system performance and scalability.
  • Conduct performance monitoring and benchmark testing for system optimization.
  • Automate CI/CD pipelines and improve engineering efficiency.
  • Follow secure software development practices aligned with industry standards.
  • Contribute to the security and reliability of mission-critical systems.
  • Deliver reliable, highly available, mission critical & geo-resilient systems, with strong recovery mechanisms and deep observability.

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
  • 3 or more years of professional experience working with Rust.
  • Experience and background in crypto, Web3, or traditional & emerging payments systems and integration.
  • Experience with microservices architectures, distributed systems, and building scalable, mission-critical platforms.
  • Familiarity with gRPC, messaging protocols like MQ or Kafka, and modern DevOps tools (Git, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of backend architectures, including container orchestration.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication abilities.

Bonus Qualifications
  • Experience in Crypto infrastructure is a big plus.
  • Experience building modern shared ledger, programmable systems is a plus.
  • Competency in other programming languages such as TypeScript or low-level performant languages like C++ is a plus.


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