Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

About the Role
Our client is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team and contribute to building high-quality code for innovative products. This role involves working with cutting-edge technologies and research, focusing on market-driven solutions. You’ll collaborate with architects, PMs, formal methods experts, and QA engineers in a dynamic, cross-functional team.

Key Responsibilities

• Follow agile software development practices
• Work independently on development tasks with minimal supervision
• Review specifications from architects and formal methods specialists
• Contribute to algorithm design and implementation
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code
• Commit frequently and keep pull requests small and manageable
• Write unit, property, and integration tests where applicable
• Review teammates’ pull requests and provide constructive feedback
• Debug and fix bugs in both new and legacy code
• Be on-call for emergency fixes of critical severity 1 issues
• Integrate software components and third-party libraries
• Deploy and verify software systems
• Write technical documentation and user manuals
• Apply knowledge in distributed systems and basic cryptography
• Collaborate with global, distributed teams

Requirements
Key Competencies

• Write idiomatic, specification-compliant code
• Design effective and sufficient testing strategies
• Document code and APIs concisely and clearly
• Break down tasks into short, achievable units
• Apply sound software engineering principles (e.g., modularity, incremental development, avoiding premature optimization)

Required Experience & Skills

• 2–3 years experience (professional or otherwise) in Haskell, JavaScript, Scala, or Rust
• Familiarity with Git and Git-based workflows
• Hands-on experience with Agile development methods
• Understanding of functional and object-oriented programming paradigms

Specialist Skills (Based on Expertise Area)
Haskell Engineer

• QuickCheck/Hedgehog property testing
• Knowledge of concurrency, lazy evaluation, memoization
• Familiarity with PureScript, Elm, Idris, Agda, Ocaml, F#
• GHC experience and libraries like conduit, cryptonite, servant, etc.
• Experience in advanced functional programming (type-level programming, extensible effects, streaming, etc.)

Scala Engineer

• Deep understanding of Scala’s type system
• Knowledge of tools and libraries like ScalaPB, Scalacheck, Scala.js, doobie, etc.

Network Engineer

• Familiarity with Poldercast, Dandelion, Kademlia, P2P systems
• Understanding of latency, throughput, and distributed computing

Cryptography Engineer

• Experience with ZKPs, MPC, and blockchain cryptography
• Implementation of crypto primitives and theoretical crypto knowledge
• Familiarity with cryptographic papers and secure coding practices

Tools Engineer

• Experience with compilers, linkers, build systems, and IDE tooling
• Comfort with maintaining large legacy codebases in various languages
• Negotiating and aligning with upstream developers

Functional Compiler Engineer

• Experience with language frontends, type systems, and optimizations
• HCI awareness in programming tools and DSLs is a bonus

Frontend & Full Stack Engineer

• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, SASS/LESS, JavaScript (ES6)
• Familiarity with frameworks: React, Angular, Backbone, Vue, etc.
• Experience with build tools (Webpack, Gulp), Electron, REST, GraphQL
• UX/UI awareness and basic image/design editing tool proficiency
• Knowledge of NodeJS, Docker, MVC/MVVM patterns

Rust Engineer

• System programming experience in Rust (or C/C++)
• Experience with distributed/networked systems and APIs
• Familiarity with agile development and test-driven development
• Security and accessibility compliance
• Optional: Blockchain, cryptography, Web3, CI/CD pipelines, AWS/GCP

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and remote work opportunity
• Exposure to cutting-edge projects in functional programming and cryptography
• Work in a collaborative and inclusive environment

Additional Information
Due to application volume, feedback may not be provided unless shortlisted.
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