Rust Cloud Service Developer, Real-time Engine Team

We're seeking for a Rust Engineer. As a Rust Engineer, you will actively participate in all development phases, including research, design, development, testing, and integration of Fetcherr’s Engines software components. You will collaborate with engineers to develop high-performance, reliable, secure applications. Your role will involve contributing to the architecture, writing efficient code, and ensuring the scalability and maintainability of the software.

About The Role:

As a Cloud Service Developer on the Real-time Engine team, you will be building our core offering—our real-time price optimization engine. You will take part in the entire development cycle, including designing cloud and database components, implementing them, and running them in production. You will be building a highly complex distributed system that runs on multiple cloud providers, where high performance and large scale matter the most. As we all have a high sense of ownership, you will also be a generalist, work directly with customers, and collaborate with other engineers.

This is a unique opportunity to build a real-time API engine from the ground up, entering this emerging field at an early stage and shaping our product, technology, and business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance microservices in a Cloud ecosystem, focusing on containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Utilize Rust, Go, and Python to build efficient and scalable applications.
• Utilize and manage databases, ensuring efficient data querying and manipulation.
• Develop and optimize complex SQL queries and work with various data querying tools.
• Contribute to the overall architecture and design of the software solutions.
• Collaborate with engineers to develop reliable, secure, and scalable applications.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct performance tuning, optimization, and debugging.
• Adhere to secure coding practices and ensure the security and reliability of applications.
• Write efficient, clean, and well-documented code.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous integration processes.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Must Have:

• 5+ years of experience in backend development with high-performance distributed systems.
• Experience designing and developing APIs.
• Vast hands-on proficiency with cloud platforms and serverless architecture, particularly GCP.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in developing Rust code.
• Familiarity with Rust libraries and frameworks like Rocket.rs, Actix, tokio,serde, rayon, clap.
• Knowledge of Rust’s package management and build systems.
• Familiarity with modern debugging tools specific to Rust and other relevant languages.
• Experience with writing and maintaining unit and integration tests.
• At least 6 years of experience with backend programming languages such as C#, Go, Python, Java, or C++ (minimum 2 from the list)
• Proven knowledge of modern architectural methods and patterns, such as microservices.
• Strong knowledge of advanced data structures and algorithms.
• Knowledge of databases (SQL and NoSQL), data storage solutions, data querying and manipulation tools.
• Familiar with CI/CD workflows, and DevOps practices.
• Hand-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or a related field.
• Excellent problem-solving with passion for learning new technologies and practices.
• Fluent in English, with excellent communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with high performance protocols, like gRPC, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSockets.
• Experience with Big Data technologies and frameworks.
• Exposure to AI and Machine Learning concepts and tools.

Skills and Attributes:

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and in a collaborative team environment.
• Proactive and able to manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Passion for technology and continuous learning.