Rust Backend Architect (AI)

Location: Remote — Worldwide; listed locations include the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.

Company

Boutique consultancy providing IT professional services and engineering talent solutions for building high-performing teams.

What you will do

• Solve and validate Rust backend engineering problems involving APIs, service behavior, data persistence, concurrency, performance, and reliability.
• Translate functional requirements, performance targets, and failure-handling expectations into reproducible implementation and testing workflows.
• Design, review, and assess backend architectures for correctness, scalability, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Prepare Rust crate workspaces, configuration files, test fixtures, dependency services, databases, and containerized development environments.
• Develop and validate tests covering expected behavior, edge cases, failure scenarios, and system reliability.
• Debug complex backend issues, evaluate asynchronous and concurrent systems, and produce technical explanations and implementation artifacts for AI training and evaluation.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on proficiency in Rust, demonstrated through substantial professional, research, or open-source software development.
• Strong understanding of backend service design, APIs, data persistence, and production software architecture.
• Practical knowledge of asynchronous programming, concurrency, error handling, and performance optimization in Rust.
• Experience analyzing and resolving complex backend correctness, scalability, reliability, or performance problems.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into working implementations, reproducible tests, and verifiable outcomes.
• Experience with Rust workspaces, dependency management, test environments, and backend development tooling.
• Strong debugging, analytical reasoning, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Clear written communication and the ability to explain architectural decisions and technical findings.
• Strong written and verbal English; availability for approximately 15 hours per week and ability to begin within 24–48 hours after onboarding.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work on a worldwide AI training project.
• Contract engagement with weekly submission requirements and project deadlines.
• Opportunity to contribute production-quality Rust implementations, tests, and architectural evaluations.

Hiring process

• Complete onboarding before beginning work.
• Start within 24–48 hours after completing onboarding.