Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

About the Role
Are you an energetic and talented Senior Full Stack Developer who loves tackiling complex challenges? Do you thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and want to be part of an innovative team? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join a growing startup!

At Lastwall, they're revolutionizing the cybersecurity industry and seeking a skilled Senior Full Stack Developer with a passion for cutting-edge technologies. As a Senior level resource, you'll play a vital role in developing and maintaining their next-generation web applications. As part of a small, high impact team, you'll often be working in areas with incomplete specifinations or shifting priorities. They value people who take initiative, operate independently, and bring structure to ambiguity when needed.
While this is a full stack role, it is backend-focused, with an emphasis on building scalable APIs, designing robust data models, and ensuring high performance in a Rust and Postgres environment. Frontend work using Angular and TypeScript may occur, but backend architecture and implementation will be the core focus.

About Lastwall
Lastwall is a cybersecurity company with offices in the United States and Canada, specializing in the development and delivery of highly secure, identity-centric, and quantum-resilient cybersecurity solutions. They aim to build innovative, security-first technologies designed for compliance-driven and threat-intensive environments such as those found in defense, government, and critical infrastructure sectors.

Their solutions are engineered with a security-first approach, leveraging cutting-edge advancements in identity and digital defense to outpace threat actors and protect sensitive systems from evolving cyber threats. By focusing on inhibiting the efficacy of adversaries and exponentially bolstering client security, they provide essential tools to safeguard operations in some of the most mission-critical industries.

If you’re a US Citizen that is passionate about working at the forefront of cybersecurity technology in environments that demand unparalleled security and reliability, they’d love to have you join their US-based team!

Key Responsibilities:

• Completing well groomed tickets independently
• Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and assisting in estimating timelines.
• Ensuring timely delivery of high quality solutions
• Conducting research on relevant product and feature based solutions
• Anticipating potential stack roadblocks and provide well thought out and researched solutions
• Architecting and building backend frameworks, while also contributing to front-end structure as needed
• Developing user-friendly web applications using TypeScript, Rust, Angular, and Postgres.
• Ensure code quality through peer reviews and contribute to peer testing efforts.
• Writing clean and maintainable code
• Writing unit and integration tests with good test coverage
• Utilize your knowledge of cyber security best practices, including familiarity with OWASP Top 10, to implement secure coding practices.
• Embrace an agile methodology, participating in sprint planning, and daily stand-ups
• Enhance the scalability and performance of our applications while maintaining a strong focus on user experience.
• Provide technical mentorship and support to peers, and help shape best practices across the frontend team
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and efficiency.

Requirements:

• Minimum 7+ years of experience as a Software Developer.
• Strong proficiency in backend development with:
• Ideally with Rust and frameworks such as sqlx, axum or equivalent experience in systems-level languages with a willingness to quickly ramp up on Rust.
• REST API design and development
• Postgres and relational data modeling
• Experience writing clean, maintainable code and automated tests (unit and integration).
• Demonstrated ability to complete scoped features independently.
• Familiarity with secure coding practices and awareness of the OWASP Top 10.
• Experience with peer code reviews and agile development workflows.
• Proven ability to work independently and manage feature delivery end-to-end

Nice to haves:

• Frontend development experience with Angular and TypeScript.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in Docker-based environments.
• Previous work in the cybersecurity industry or on security-sensitive applications.
• Contributing to or maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with performance tuning for web-scale systems.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.).