Full Stack Rust Engineer

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Scope of work

Contribute to lowering our Cost per Hire goal by building tools that help clients through the acquisition funnel. Conduct interviews, verify worker skills and roles, and complete compliance tasks. Identify paths of deprecation within client-core and migrate certain data models to new services to establish a new source of truth.

Deliverables

• Reduce Cost per hire by eliminating human touchpoints or optimizing our spend.
• Fearless of technologies, frameworks, and languages.
• Drive requirements and display ownership of large, complex projects or systems. Communicate with stakeholders across multiple projects and communicate consistently and proactively.
• Advise teams through designing and building large, complex, and reusable systems. Ensure systems are designed to be simple, maintainable, and scalable.
• Drive code quality for projects and guide others in performing code reviews. Ensure code passes standards for cleanliness, reliability, and functionality.
• Own and lead on discrete areas of Rails monolith decommission as we move towards non-Ruby ecosystems, resulting in a smooth transition and feature minimisation as you follow best practice engineering
• Documentation for system architecture, API specifications, and deployment procedures. Maintain backend APIs and integrations with 3rd party vendors.
• Performance monitoring and observability tools for system reliability

Skills Required

Technical Skills:

• Demonstrated polyglot ability and an eager willingness to jump into any code base. In particular, familiarity with Python/Django and Ruby/Rails is strongly desired.
• Advanced Java or Rust development experience
• Experience leveraging coding agents to reduce delivery time and maintain output quality
• MCP design and creation
• RESTful API and GraphQL development
• Database design and optimization (Postgres, MySQL, Redis)
• Passion for developer productivity and staying up-to-date with AI advancements.
• Breaking apart monoliths, utilizing contextually appropriate strategies.
• Marketing background or experience is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Strong collaboration abilities
• Problem-solving and technical debt assessment
• Cross-functional communication with product and engineering teams