This is a 3 month fixed term salaried contract, located in Ontario Canada. Preferably in Toronto.The Role:We are seeking a Full Stack Rust Engineer to join the team as a hands-on contributor building and maintaining production Rust applications. This role spans backend systems engineering, database query development, and frontend contribution - with the center of gravity firmly on backend Rust development in a distributed, containerized environment. This is a build-and-ship role. The successful candidate writes production Rust, debugs production Rust, and owns the quality and performance of the systems they deliver.
What You'll Do:- Design, develop, and maintain production Rust applications, including backend services, APIs, and system-level components
- Write and optimize complex SQL queries for performance and correctness at scale
- Debug and troubleshoot Rust applications in production environments, including memory safety issues, concurrency bugs, and performance regressions
- Contribute to frontend development using React where needed, including integration with micro frontend architectures
- Participate in the design and implementation of microservice and distributed system architectures
- Write and maintain comprehensive test suites: unit tests, integration tests, and end-toend tests following established best practices
- Deploy, monitor, and maintain services in containerized Kubernetes environments
- Implement and maintain observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and alerting for missioncritical distributed systems
- Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to team members at all levels
- Mentor junior engineers on Rust best practices, systems design, and production engineering discipline
- Leverage agentic coding assistive tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude CLI) responsibly to accelerate development while maintaining code quality and security standards
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.
