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Outstaff Hiring: Remote — Contract (Full-time, Long-term)
About the Role
e are looking for a Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer to build and maintain production-grade Rust applications. This is primarily a backend role with some frontend development using React.
You will work on scalable distributed systems, backend services, APIs, SQL optimization, and cloud-native infrastructure. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on Rust experience in production environments and enjoys solving complex engineering challenges.
Location: Remote (EU)
Engagement: Full-time, long-term contract
Start Date: ASAP
Language: English
Time Zone: European business hours with 2-3 hours EST overlap
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain production Rust applications
- Build backend services, APIs, and system-level components
- Write and optimize complex SQL queries
- Debug production issues, including performance, concurrency, and memory-related problems
- Contribute to frontend development using React when required
- Design and implement distributed systems and microservices
- Write unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
- Deploy and maintain applications running on Kubernetes
- Implement logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing, and alerting
- Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
- Mentor junior engineers and share Rust best practices
- Use AI-assisted development tools (such as Cursor or Claude CLI) responsibly while maintaining code quality
Must-Have Requirements
- 5+ years of commercial Rust development experience
- Strong knowledge of Rust ownership, lifetimes, traits, async programming, and error handling
- Experience with Rust frameworks such as Axum, Actix, Warp, or similar
- Experience debugging production Rust applications
- Strong backend engineering experience
- Experience building scalable APIs and backend services
- Strong SQL skills, including complex queries and performance optimization
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar relational databases
- Experience writing unit and integration tests
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working with Kubernetes and containerized applications
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, etc.)
- Strong communication skills
- Experience mentoring other engineers
Nice to Have
- Experience with microservices and distributed systems
- Experience with gRPC, message queues, and event-driven architecture
- React and micro frontend experience
- AWS or GCP experience
- Infrastructure as Code experience
- Experience using AI coding assistants such as Cursor or Claude CLI
Tech Stack
- Languages: Rust, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Frontend: React
- Frameworks: Axum, Actix, Warp
- Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Cloud: AWS, GCP
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger
- CI/CD: Modern CI/CD pipelines
- Architecture: Microservices, Distributed Systems
What We’re Looking For
- Strong production Rust experience
- Backend-first engineering mindset
- Experience building reliable, scalable systems
- Passion for writing clean, maintainable code
- Ability to work independently in a remote team
- Good English communication skills