Senior Software Engineer |Rust|

Job highlights
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Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field
3 or more years of professional experience working with Rust
Experience and background in crypto, Web3, or traditional & emerging payments systems and integration
Experience with microservices architectures, distributed systems, and building scalable, mission-critical platforms
Familiarity with gRPC, messaging protocols like MQ or Kafka, and modern DevOps tools (Git, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Strong understanding of backend architectures, including container orchestration
Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication abilities
Experience in Crypto infrastructure is a big plus
Benefits
Salary $70 - $160 per hour
Jobot offers benefits for the contract portion (listed below)
Once converted to full-time, you would be covered under their employee benefits
Jobot W2 benefits, effective the first of the month following date of hire (if you start before Sept 30th, benefits would start on Oct 1st)
Platinum Health Insurance Provider Provider Blue Shield of CA
PPO – 75% Paid for Consultant and 25% for Dependents
Dental Provider Guardian
Vision Provider Guardian
Health Advocacy Service Balance Care by ENI
Life/Accidental Death & Disability Provider Guardian
Guideline 401K
Responsibilities
You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to build and implement core services, APIs, and SDKs for a scalable, event-driven shared ledger platform
You’ll have the opportunity to design and optimize systems built on a microservices architecture, contributing to the development of secure and performant software solutions
Design and implement secure, high-performance backend systems, APIs, and SDKs
Build and optimize integrations using messaging protocols across multiple languages
Identify opportunities to enhance system performance and scalability
Conduct performance monitoring and benchmark testing for system optimization
Automate CI/CD pipelines and improve engineering efficiency
Follow secure software development practices aligned with industry standards
Contribute to the security and reliability of mission-critical systems
Deliver reliable, highly available, mission critical & geo-resilient systems, with strong recovery mechanisms and deep observability
Job description
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Job details

Well-Funded Startup is looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to Join Growing Team!

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Salary $70 - $160 per hour

A Bit About Us

Well-Funded, venture-backed startup is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing team! You will collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to build and implement core services, APIs, and SDKs for a scalable, event-driven shared ledger platform. You’ll have the opportunity to design and optimize systems built on a microservices architecture, contributing to the development of secure and performant software solutions.

Why join us?

This position is hybrid or to local remote for candidates in the NYC Tri-State Area. They are open to contract-to-hire or a long term contract. Jobot offers benefits for the contract portion (listed below). Once converted to full-time, you would be covered under their employee benefits.

Jobot W2 benefits, effective the first of the month following date of hire (if you start before Sept 30th, benefits would start on Oct 1st)
• Platinum Health Insurance Provider Provider Blue Shield of CA
• PPO – 75% Paid for Consultant and 25% for Dependents
• Dental Provider Guardian
• Vision Provider Guardian
• Health Advocacy Service Balance Care by ENI
• Life/Accidental Death & Disability Provider Guardian
• Guideline 401K

Job Details

Key Responsibilities
• Design and implement secure, high-performance backend systems, APIs, and SDKs.
• Build and optimize integrations using messaging protocols across multiple languages.
• Identify opportunities to enhance system performance and scalability.
• Conduct performance monitoring and benchmark testing for system optimization.
• Automate CI/CD pipelines and improve engineering efficiency.
• Follow secure software development practices aligned with industry standards.
• Contribute to the security and reliability of mission-critical systems.
• Deliver reliable, highly available, mission critical & geo-resilient systems, with strong recovery mechanisms and deep observability.

Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field.
• 3 or more years of professional experience working with Rust.
• Experience and background in crypto, Web3, or traditional & emerging payments systems and integration.
• Experience with microservices architectures, distributed systems, and building scalable, mission-critical platforms.
• Familiarity with gRPC, messaging protocols like MQ or Kafka, and modern DevOps tools (Git, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Strong understanding of backend architectures, including container orchestration.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and communication abilities.

Bonus Qualifications
• Experience in Crypto infrastructure is a big plus.
• Experience building modern shared ledger, programmable systems is a plus.
• Competency in other programming languages such as TypeScript or low-level performant languages like C++ is a plus.

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