Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer, Fixed Term - Toronto

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience creating and managing Rust applications in production environments
• Strong command of Rust's ownership model, lifetime system, trait system, and error handling patterns
• Experience with the async Rust ecosystem (Tokio, async-std, or equivalent runtimes)
• Proficiency with common Rust web frameworks and libraries (Actix, Axum, Warp, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated ability to debug Rust applications in production: diagnosing panics, memory issues, deadlocks, and performance bottlenecks
• Strong systems/backend engineering experience in a production setting — this is not a prototyping or research role
• Experience designing and building APIs, background workers, data pipelines, or other backend services that run reliably at scale
• SQL and Data Strong experience creating scalable and efficient SQL queries, including complex joins, window functions, indexing strategy, and query plan analysis
• Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent) in production
• Familiarity with testing best practices in Rust and broader software engineering
• Experience writing and maintaining unit tests, integration tests, and ideally propertybased or fuzz tests
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how testing fits into a production deployment workflow
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized environments: deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting services running in containers
• Experience with observability and alerting in mission-critical distributed systems: structured logging, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or equivalent), metrics (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent), and alerting configuration
• Ability to communicate effectively with team members at all levels — engineers, product managers, and leadership
• Willingness and ability to mentor junior engineers: code review, pair programming, and knowledge sharing on Rust and systems engineering topics
• The anticipated hourly range for this position is $75 hourly. Rate is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, expertise, and organizational impact. This is based on a 40-hour workweek and leveling. Keep in mind, we're flexible.
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