Senior Software Developer, Rust in Canada Creek, Nova Scotia at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Developer, Rust based in Canada.

You will join a high-impact engineering environment focused on building and scaling critical backend systems where correctness, performance, and reliability are essential.
The role centers on introducing and expanding Rust within core platform services that demand safety and deterministic behavior under real-world scale.
You will work across distributed systems, shaping architecture decisions and owning services end-to-end from design to production.
The environment values autonomy, allowing engineers to identify meaningful problems and choose the right technical approaches.
You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product, design, and engineering peers to build robust, scalable solutions.
This is a hands-on senior role where judgment, ownership, and system thinking matter as much as coding ability.
You will also contribute to raising engineering standards through mentorship, design reviews, and operational excellence.

• Design, build, and maintain high-correctness backend services in Rust that power critical platform workflows, ensuring performance, safety, and reliability at scale.
• Lead system ownership across the full lifecycle, including architecture design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing operational support.
• Make key engineering decisions around concurrency models, async execution, data consistency, failure handling, and system boundaries in distributed environments.
• Integrate Rust into a polyglot ecosystem, working effectively alongside other backend technologies and services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure technical solutions align with product goals and user experience needs.
• Improve system observability, reliability, and resilience through thoughtful design rather than reactive fixes.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a strong engineering culture centered on ownership and technical excellence.

• Strong experience building and operating distributed systems in production environments.
• Deep, hands-on Rust expertise, ideally used in real production systems rather than experimental or side projects.
• Solid understanding of concurrency, async programming, and correctness guarantees in backend systems.
• Experience designing scalable APIs and data contracts that evolve safely over time.
• Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases in high-scale environments.
• Proven experience deploying and operating services on cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform (GCP experience strongly preferred).
• Strong ownership mindset, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to communicate technical trade-offs clearly.

• Competitive compensation aligned with senior-level expertise and market standards.
• Remote-friendly flexibility with collaboration across distributed teams.
• Opportunity to work on high-scale systems with real production impact.
• Strong engineering culture emphasizing autonomy, trust, and technical excellence.
• Access to modern tooling and workflows that enhance productivity and engineering leverage.
• Inclusive and collaborative work environment that values diversity of thought and background.
• Opportunities for professional growth, mentorship, and leadership development.