Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with deep expertise in Rust to join our core platform team. This role is ideal for engineers who have a solid background in distributed systems, event-driven microservices, and secure financial-grade backends, and who are passionate about building highly-performant, scalable systems using Rust.

You will be part of a high-impact team working on modernizing core backend services, improving system throughput, and adopting best practices for reliability, security, and observability.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and develop backend microservices using Rust, ensuring high performance, security, and scalability.
• Lead the design of event-driven architectures using Kafka and ensure seamless service communication.
• Own modules that deal with concurrency, memory management, and multi-threading with focus on performance optimization.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to containerize services and manage them using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools.
• Ensure security compliance and code quality through code reviews, testing, and integration of SonarQube, Checkmarx, and Fortify.
• Integrate backend services with API gateways like Kong, 3Scale, and implement OAuth2/JWT-based authentication.
• Actively monitor and troubleshoot production issues using tools like AppDynamics, Dynatrace, or equivalent APM tools.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software development experience, including 3+ years in Rust
• Deep knowledge of Rust language features: ownership model, smart pointers, traits, Cargo ecosystem
• Experience working with multi-threaded, memory-safe, and concurrent applications
• Strong expertise in Microservices, CQRS, SAGA, Service Discovery, Circuit Breakers
• Hands-on with Kafka, MongoDB, Redis, and RESTful APIs
• Prior experience with C++ or Java is a strong plus
• CI/CD pipeline exposure: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native development

Nice to Have

• Experience in banking, financial services, or fintech
• Knowledge of token-based authentication mechanisms like OAuth2, JWT
• Familiarity with WebAssembly, Zero-copy data processing, or gRPC in Rust is a bonus
• Contributions to open-source Rust projects or GitHub repositories

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a fast-scaling backend modernization journey using Rust
• Work in a high-autonomy, high-impact engineering environment
• Solve performance-critical problems for real-world financial systems
• Collaborate with top-tier engineers in a tech-forward culture