Senior Rust Software Developer (Rust)

TL;DR

Senior Rust Software Developer (Rust): Building and optimizing high-correctness Rust services on critical platform paths with an accent on safety, determinism, and performance. Focus on owning systems end-to-end, making decisions around concurrency and data integrity, and working in a polyglot environment.

Location: Remote - Canada

Salary: $180,000 - $230,000 CAD

Company

hirify.global is a platform focused on driving customer loyalty through seamless post-purchase experiences for retailers and brands.

What you will do

• Design and build high-correctness Rust services that sit on critical platform paths.
• Introduce Rust into areas where safety, determinism, and performance are essential.
• Own systems from architecture to implementation, rollout, and operations.
• Make real decisions around concurrency, async boundaries, data integrity, and failure modes.
• Work across service boundaries in a polyglot environment.
• Collaborate with product, design, and frontend engineers.
• Improve reliability, observability, and system behavior through design.
• Mentor other engineers and raise the bar on system quality and ownership.

Requirements

• Built and operated distributed systems in production.
• Deep hands-on Rust experience.
• Understands where Rust shines and where it doesn't.
• Comfortable reasoning about concurrency, async systems, and correctness guarantees.
• Experience designing APIs and data contracts that evolve safely over time.
• Worked with relational and/or NoSQL databases at scale.
• Deployed and operated services in AWS or GCP (GCP shop).
• Takes initiative naturally and is comfortable operating with ambiguity.
• Communicates clearly and makes tradeoffs explicit.

Nice to have

• Worked in startup or high-ownership environments.
• Owned systems in production, including on-call responsibility.
• Comfortable moving across the stack when needed (backend-first, full-stack aware).
• Influenced architecture by earning trust.
• Uses modern tooling (including AI-assisted workflows) to increase leverage.

Culture & Benefits

• Real scale, real customers, and real impacts.
• Startup-level ownership with platform-level impact.
• Teams that value thinking, judgment, and responsibility.
• Low ego, high trust, and room to do your best work.
• Includes annual bonus, equity, and benefits in addition to salary.
• Equal-opportunity employer that values diversity.