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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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WZ-1763 Senior Recently added

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NQ-3471 Mid-level

Software Engineer

Germany
3 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Specialized in backend development with RESTful APIs and Websockets, enhancing communication efficiency. Developed Telegram Bots for automating user interactions.

  • Developed RESTful APIs for backend services
  • Implemented Websocket communication for efficiency
  • Built Telegram Bots for automated interactions
Backend development RESTful API Websocket Telegram Bots development Django DRF
Available in 2 months €30k-50k/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
Interviewing now Salary on request
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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
Interviewing now Salary on request
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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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