Product Engineer (RUST)

Job Summary

We are looking for a Rust Developer with 1–3 years of experience to join our engineering team and contribute to the development of high-performance, reliable, and scalable backend services. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with Rust programming and a good understanding of asynchronous programming, APIs, databases, messaging systems, and software development practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services using Rust.
• Write clean, efficient, maintainable, and idiomatic Rust code.
• Work with async/await, Tokio, and concurrent programming.
• Develop and integrate REST APIs and backend services.
• Work with SQL databases and understand basic query optimization, transactions, and indexing.
• Work with Redis and messaging systems such as RabbitMQ/Kafka.
• Participate in development of distributed and event-driven applications.
• Write unit and integration tests and participate in code reviews.
• Troubleshoot application issues and assist with root-cause analysis.
• Work with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS/cloud environments.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and error handling.
• Collaborate with senior developers, QA, DevOps, and product teams.
• Continuously learn and adopt best practices in Rust and backend development.

Technical Skills Required

Must Have:

• 1–3 years of professional software development experience, with hands-on experience in Rust.
• Good understanding of Rust fundamentals including ownership and borrowing, lifetimes, structs and enums, traits and generics, result and option, error handling, iterators and closures.
• Basic to good understanding of async/await and Tokio.
• Understanding of multithreading and concurrency concepts.
• Experience developing REST APIs or backend services.
• Good knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Understanding of database transactions and connection pooling.
• Exposure to Redis and RabbitMQ/Kafka or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with Git, Docker, and Linux.
• Basic understanding of cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Understanding of unit testing, debugging, and code review practices.

Good to Have

• Experience with .NET/C# or another backend programming language.
• Exposure to Kubernetes.
• Understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with performance optimization and profiling.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar monitoring tools.
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of C/C++ or system-level programming.
• Experience working with high-volume data processing applications.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.
• Strong ownership and accountability.
• Ability to independently investigate and resolve technical issues with appropriate guidance.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Good time-management and prioritization skills.
• Openness to feedback and continuous improvement.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical issues and solutions.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be a 1–3 year experienced Rust developer with strong fundamentals and a willingness to learn and grow into a backend/system-level engineering role. We are particularly interested in candidates who understand Rust ownership and concurrency, async programming, APIs, databases, messaging systems, and performance-oriented development, rather than candidates who only have basic Rust syntax knowledge.