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Staff Software Engineer - Backend / Platform

Germany
18 years

Designed and migrated a carrier-integration platform serving millions of daily requests with availability above 99.99% and no customer-facing migration downtime. Implemented Rust/Axum accounting integration plus event-driven workflow services for shipment placement, invoicing, retention, and financial synchronization.

  • Attribute-based authorization with CASL
  • BullMQ event-processing workflows
  • Kubernetes and Terraform platform operations
  • GCP and AWS cloud migrations
Python TypeScript JavaScript Rust PHP NestJS
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JU-9244 Principal Recently added

Senior Backend Engineer / AI Engineer

Germany
25 years
Remote
Freelancer

Engineered high-performance backend systems for AI-driven applications. Specialized in building scalable distributed systems and microservices with a focus on REST and WebSockets.

  • Built AI-driven backend systems
  • Specialized in distributed systems
  • Utilized REST and WebSockets extensively
Backend Engineering Platform Engineering Distributed Systems Microservices REST WebSockets
Interviewing now $80k-95k/yr
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Senior Rust Backend Engineer

Canada
8 years
Remote
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
Rust Actix gRPC Kafka Kubernetes Terraform Redis Docker
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WZ-1763 Senior

Backend Developer

Portugal
8 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds Rust services and data pipelines for viewership analytics, ingesting and processing nearly 100 GB of audience data daily from multiple providers. Maintains systems backed by more than 1 PB of historical records while supporting performance, availability, and reliability requirements.

  • Standardized CRM extensions across Windows, Linux, and Android
  • Developed Kotlin, Java, and C# business applications
  • Worked across SQL-backed service and reporting layers
Rust C# Kotlin Java SQL Tokio
Available in 1 month €90k-120k/yr
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ZP-2585 Senior

Senior Blockchain & Backend Engineer

United States
13 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built low-latency Solana and DeFi trading infrastructure in asynchronous Rust and Go, including multi-venue arbitrage, Drift automation, and Anchor-based on-chain programs. Implemented Yellowstone gRPC market-data streaming, Jupiter routing, Jito bundle submission, and transaction simulation for automated execution reliability.

  • Bridged Rust services with Python using PyO3
  • Built asynchronous backend services with Tokio and Axum
  • Integrated PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Oracle databases
  • Automated containerized delivery through Docker and GitHub Actions
Rust Go Python TypeScript SQL Tokio
Interviewing now $90k-140k/yr
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WX-7625 Principal

Backend Developer .NET

Netherlands
30 years
Hybrid
Employee / Freelancer

Provided expert consulting on Rust-based system architectures for financial services. Developed high-performance data processing pipelines for real-time analytics. Integrated cross-platform solutions with C# and Python for enterprise clients.

  • Consulted on Rust architectures
  • Developed real-time data pipelines
  • Integrated cross-platform solutions
C# .NET .NET Core ASP.NET ASP.NET Web API Python
Interviewing now €80k-90k/yr
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EV-7847 Staff

Technical Lead

Canada
23 years
Remote
Employee

Engineered cloud infrastructure solutions, optimizing resource usage and reducing costs by 40%. Led R&D efforts on distributed systems, transforming prototypes into production-ready services.

  • Designed scalable API architectures
  • Managed cross-functional engineering teams
  • Pioneered cloud-native development practices
Software engineering System design API Design Cloud infrastructure optimization Distributed systems R&D productionization
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QA-8730 Senior

Senior Backend Engineer

France
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Develops asynchronous concurrent Rust services on Tokio for algorithmic digital-asset trading across more than 140 centralized and decentralized exchanges. Built exchange connectivity for roughly 20 venues using FIX, REST, and WebSocket protocols, with latency-sensitive order and market-data paths below 100 milliseconds.

  • Founded an audited on-chain protocol
  • Supported more than 12,000 blockchain identities
  • Implemented NATS-based service messaging
  • Built EVM integrations using The Graph and Multicall
Rust Tokio Asynchronous Programming Concurrent Programming TypeScript Node.js
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SL-4391 Senior

Senior Backend & Data Engineer

United States
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered scalable backend services for data-intensive applications, focusing on microservices architecture and container orchestration. Implemented data transformation pipelines using Rust to enhance data processing efficiency.

  • Designed RESTful APIs with TypeScript and Rust
  • Automated infrastructure with Docker and Bash scripting
  • Built CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration
Python Rust TypeScript Bash Powershell Docker
Interviewing now $80k-100k/yr
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GC-5338 Lead

Backend Lead

United Kingdom
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Leads backend architecture for a production trading platform handling real user funds, with single-writer state, idempotent workflows, atomic settlement, and fail-closed reliability controls. Builds low-latency Rust services using Tokio and Axum, including real-time gRPC and WebSocket data pipelines.

  • Normalized multi-source market data with freshness handling
  • Designed bounded-channel backpressure and workload-isolated job queues
  • Operated PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, Kafka, and Flink systems
  • Developed Solana programs for on-chain transaction workflows
Rust Tokio Axum Tower Async programming Concurrency
Interviewing now $130k-180k/yr
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SQ-5145 Senior

System Architect

Poland
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architects Rust async services for low-latency market-data ingestion, normalization, pricing, and execution across multiple trading venues. Previously operated an IoT platform processing thousands of telemetry events per second from hundreds of thousands of field machines during migration to AWS serverless event processing.

  • WebSocket reconnection and gap recovery
  • Lock-free state sharing with ArcSwap
  • Single-writer and sequencer patterns
  • Market microstructure modeling
Rust Kotlin Java TypeScript Python SQL
Available in 2 weeks $100k-150k/yr
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AE-5362 Lead

Lead Software Engineer

Italy
9 years
Remote
Employee

Designed a multi-tenant IoT platform where users compose sensor-data ETL workflows, transformations, and analytics through a visual editor. Built the surrounding web and service architecture for real-time and historical telemetry, including Rust-backed development work and Go microservices.

  • Implemented React Flow drag-and-drop workflow editing
  • Integrated resource-level permissions into application navigation
  • Built responsive interfaces with Next.js and TypeScript
  • Created interactive sensor analytics dashboards
Rust TypeScript JavaScript React Next.js HTML
Interviewing now €50k-70k/yr
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WW-1455 Lead

Founder & Backend Architect

India
13 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and delivered a multi-tenant SaaS platform end to end, covering architecture, backend services, testing, cloud deployment, and production operations. Builds event-driven microservices and state-machine workflows for banking, payments, supply-chain, and enterprise integration systems, with measured 45% throughput improvement and 30% lower API latency.

  • Rust and Go asynchronous service development
  • REST API and enterprise integration architecture
  • Database refactoring for high-volume workloads
  • Cloud-native deployment and production hyper-care
Rust Go Python Java SQL Tokio
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ZA-1638 Senior

Technical Lead

Austria
8 years
Flexible
Employee

Architected Rust data-processing services using Apache DataFusion for large structured and unstructured datasets, with cloud-native orchestration through Argo Workflows. Also built Rust APIs and integration services over relational, graph, and vector databases, covering deployment, observability, and production monitoring.

  • Functional-programming patterns in backend architecture
  • Scala and Python data-pipeline integration
  • Performance-critical Rust component adoption
  • Production service lifecycle instrumentation
Rust Apache DataFusion Tokio Cargo Scala Python
Available in 2 months Salary on request
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JJ-2389 Senior

Rust Software Engineer

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Specialized in developing high-performance systems with Rust, emphasizing concurrency and memory safety. Contributed to open-source projects, enhancing libraries used in real-time data processing.

  • Developed cross-platform libraries in Rust and C++
  • Optimized TypeScript front-end applications for performance
  • Implemented real-time analytics systems in Python
Rust C C++ JavaScript TypeScript Python
Interviewing now $80k-90k/yr
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