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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
Hired Salary: $XXX,XXX
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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
Available in 2 weeks Salary on request
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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
Available in 1 month Salary on request
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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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JE-5409 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

United States
11 years
Remote
Employee

Led the design of microservices architecture using Golang and Rust, integrating gRPC for efficient communication. Developed RESTful APIs for scalable cloud applications.

  • Designed microservices architecture with Golang
  • Integrated gRPC for communication
  • Developed scalable RESTful APIs
Golang Rust Python Microservices gRPC RESTful APIs
Interviewing now $120k-135k/yr
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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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SV-8325 Senior

Senior Freelance Consultant

France
9 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Builds backend platforms around PHP 8+, Symfony, Laravel, and NestJS, using domain-driven, hexagonal, and event-driven architectures for REST APIs and microservices. Has implemented distributed integrations across AWS messaging services, Kubernetes deployments, relational and document databases, and regulated authentication flows.

  • Designed OpenAPI contracts for service integrations
  • Implemented OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and Keycloak security
  • Applied TDD with PHPUnit, Jest, and SonarQube
  • Built event workflows with AWS SNS and SQS
PHP PHP 8+ Symfony Laravel Lumen NestJS
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AH-4885 Lead

Team Lead - Backend

Spain
7 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed backend systems using Rust and Go for high-performance applications. Managed data persistence with PostgreSQL and caching strategies using Redis.

  • Integrated NestJS for modular server-side applications
  • Developed API gateways for microservice communication
  • Optimized Node.js applications for concurrency
Node.js Go Rust NestJS PostgreSQL Redis
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DW-8746 Principal

Senior / Staff / Principal Backend Engineer

Brazil
17 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Led development of microservices architecture for high-traffic web applications. Specialized in database schema design and query optimization for large-scale systems.

  • Built real-time data processing pipelines
  • Implemented RESTful APIs with Rust
  • Migrated monolithic applications to microservices
Rust Go Ruby TypeScript SQL Backend Services
Interviewing now $120k-180k/yr
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WH-6752 Principal

Staff Software Engineer

India
14 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Architected scalable data infrastructure using cloud-native technologies, focusing on distributed systems. Designed query engines optimized for low-latency data retrieval. Led the development of API abstraction layers to unify backend platform interfaces.

  • Developed microservices for cloud platforms
  • Implemented fault-tolerant data replication protocols
  • Enhanced backend performance through custom caching solutions
Data infrastructure Query engines API abstraction layers Backend platform architecture Distributed systems Cloud-native systems
Interviewing now $80k-200k/yr
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UT-9876 Principal

Senior Backend Engineer

Ukraine
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and optimized distributed databases using PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, focusing on high availability and consistency. Built backend services in Rust to handle millions of requests per second.

  • Implemented complex queries for data analytics
  • Enhanced SQL performance with custom indexing
  • Developed data pipelines for ETL processes
Rust JavaScript TypeScript SQL PostgreSQL ClickHouse
$100k-120k/yr
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