Rust Backend Architect (AI)

Location: Remote — Worldwide; listed locations include Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay.

Contract role; approximately 15 hours per week.

Company

Boutique consultancy providing IT professional services and engineering talent solutions, with a focus on building high-performing software 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 implementations 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 to contribute approximately 15 hours per week and meet the project's minimum weekly task requirements.
• Ability to begin work within 24–48 hours after completing onboarding.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contract engagement with worldwide location eligibility and listed availability across Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay.
• Work focused on production-grade Rust development, complex systems engineering, and AI training and evaluation.
• Weekly submission requirements and project deadlines apply.