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WF-8258 Lead Recently added

Embedded Software Engineer

United Kingdom
15 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built safety-critical automotive firmware using C, RTOS scheduling, real-time state machines, and ISO 26262/MISRA C practices on resource-constrained microcontrollers. Also develops Rust services with Axum, Tokio, SQLx, custom error types, and asynchronous concurrency from API design through persistence.

  • BLE GATT and custom wireless protocol implementations
  • CAN, UART, SPI, and I2C device communication
  • LittleFS and Dhara flash translation layers
  • Wear-leveling drivers for raw NAND and NOR flash
RustEmbedded CPythonAssemblerAxumTokio
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NZ-8964 Principal Recently added

Freelance Tech Lead / Embedded Systems Architect

France
12 years
Freelancer

Architected embedded systems with a focus on Linux-based platforms using Yocto. Developed real-time applications in Rust for resource-constrained environments.

  • Created custom Linux kernel modules
  • Implemented C++ solutions for hardware interfacing
  • Automated build processes with Bash scripting
CC++RustBashYoctoEmbedded Linux
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#HIRED Senior Recently hired

Senior Embedded Rust Engineer

Germany
12 years
On-site
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
Rustno_stdESP32ZephyrLinuxCARMRTOS
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SN-9140

Backend/Systems Developer

Latvia
Remote
Freelancer

Develops embedded Rust firmware and backend middleware across bare-metal MSP430, STM32, ESP32, and RP2350 platforms. Implements async Embassy and no_std systems for industrial metering, cellular connectivity, LoRa telemetry, vending controls, displays, and BLE peripherals.

  • SX1262 LoRa range-testing hardware
  • PPP and CMUX cellular modem support
  • LVGL display interfaces
  • Bootloader and OTA update mechanisms
RustEmbedded Rustno_std RustEmbassyAsynchronous ProgrammingBackend Development
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VS-3060 Principal

Senior Backend & Systems Engineer

Poland
16 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built a Rust complex-event-processing engine that composes reusable processing blocks into Kafka-consuming and Kafka-producing deployments. The system uses Tokio tasks, NATS stage transport, embedded Python execution, and dependency-aware input routing to reproduce production-grade stream-processing architecture.

  • Implemented bidirectional PyO3 type marshalling across the FFI boundary
  • Managed Python GIL boundaries for in-process block execution
  • Developed Linux filesystem drivers and embedded firmware
  • Built distributed event-driven backends in Scala, Java, and Go
RustTokioPyO3Actix WebSQLxrdkafka
Available in 1 month $100k-130k/yr
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CR-3148 Staff

Linux Software Developer

Croatia
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Works close to the Linux platform through embedded systems, Buildroot, kernel development, and network-protocol implementation. Telecommunications work includes hands-on engineering for 4G LTE and 5G NR systems, alongside embedded microcontroller and signal-processing projects.

  • Linux kernel customization
  • Buildroot image engineering
  • LTE and NR protocol stacks
  • Embedded computer vision
LinuxWindowsCC++PythonJavaScript
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EZ-5603 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

United States
13 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds distributed workflow, data, and scientific-computing infrastructure across Rust, Go, Python, and systems-level C/C++. Designed job scheduling with PostgreSQL state management and worker dispatch, and contributed to published DeepVariant evaluation research alongside genomics pipeline engineering.

  • Implemented FPGA RTL with SystemVerilog and Yosys
  • Developed STM32 bare-metal peripherals over I2C and UART
  • Built cloud ETL pipelines with Parquet and BigQuery
  • Operated Kubernetes workloads across GKE and ECS
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Available in 2 weeks $200k-250k/yr
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WN-1754 Mid-level

Embedded Software Engineer

Netherlands
4 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Refactored embedded GNSS software from Python to Rust around a hardware-abstraction microservice and ZeroMQ broker. Built a single-threaded Tokio data path for Bluetooth, Radino, and CAN interfaces, using exclusive handle ownership and latest-wins channels to control latency and staleness.

  • Yocto-based embedded OS deployment automation
  • Trait-based correction-feed and output-sink contracts
  • ZMQ Pub/Sub and Push/Pull abstractions
  • Independent GNSS read and correction-write tasks
RustTokioAsynchronous ProgrammingPythonC++Bash
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WN-9219 Senior

Senior Software Engineer

Italy
5 years
Hybrid
Employee / Freelancer

Developed robust backend services using Rust for cloud-native applications. Integrated Nix-based deployment pipelines, ensuring reproducible builds and environments. Contributed to open-source projects focused on improving developer tooling in Rust.

  • Created a TypeScript-to-Rust FFI for seamless integration
  • Automated CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions
  • Enhanced API performance with custom caching strategies
RustTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonNixJava
Available in 2 weeks $120k-150k/yr
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JE-1314 Lead

Founder & CTO

Czech Republic
25 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architects real-time connected-device platforms and distributed compute systems in Go and Rust. An IoT backend handles approximately 350,000 concurrent devices and peaks near 300,000 messages per second, while a separate Rust platform combines Tokio, NATS, Raft, PostgreSQL, and WebAssembly.

  • Designed versioned binary device protocols
  • Implemented multi-level sharding for hot paths
  • Built custom columnar time-series storage
  • Performed zero-downtime PostgreSQL migrations
RustGoC#.NET CoreJavaPython
Interviewing now €60k-120k/yr
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JT-6966 Principal

Chief Product Officer

United Kingdom
18 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected electronic trading systems for FX and digital assets, including exchange connectivity, FPGA market-data adapters, trade capture, portfolio management, and risk controls. Also developed online machine-learning systems under extreme latency constraints and transactional platforms requiring extensive auditability and correctness.

  • Embedded Rust for performance-sensitive devices
  • OTC pricing and streaming infrastructure
  • PostgreSQL trade-booking database design
  • Mechanical-sympathy low-latency architecture
RustEmbedded RustPythonSQLPostgreSQLC++
Available in 3+ months £100k-150k/yr
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NH-6807 Lead

Senior Lead Engineer

Spain
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Leads hardware and firmware platforms spanning holographic AR/VR, neural implants, industrial devices, and high-end x64 systems. Technical work includes graphene-based implant electronics, ASIC-facing development, clean-room fabrication, ACF/COF assembly, DDR4 platforms, and design-for-manufacture in medical applications.

  • High-speed electronics architecture
  • Power electronics and circuit design
  • Design-for-test implementation
  • FMEA-driven product risk analysis
Altium DesignerHigh-Speed ElectronicsPower ElectronicsDesign for Test (DFT)Design for Manufacturing (DFM)Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Available in 1 month €70k-120k/yr
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JB-9105 Junior

Embedded Systems Engineer

India
2 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Developed firmware for IoT devices utilizing STM32 microcontrollers, integrating sensors and wireless communication protocols. Contributed to the design of low-power embedded systems, optimizing performance with C and Rust.

  • Implemented real-time data acquisition systems.
  • Optimized memory usage in constrained environments.
  • Improved device communication using custom protocol stacks.
CC++Embedded CRustRust no_stdrp-hal
Interviewing now $33-42/hr
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NE-9088 Senior

Software Engineer

Netherlands
8 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built Rust firmware and driver software for embedded devices, including a power-optimized ECG holter. Designed bidirectional replication for a custom document database and implemented low-latency measurement-event display updates with Haskell STM.

  • Nix formatter implementation
  • Network topology inference from reachability data
  • Nix-based server and router configuration
  • Privacy-oriented municipal authentication backend
GitLinuxNixOSPostgreSQLHaskellPython
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ET-1108 Senior

Rust Engineer & Founder

France
9 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds Rust backend services, compilers, domain-specific languages, and embedded-systems software. Created a Rust implementation of a custom programming language, shipped PostgreSQL-backed production APIs, and maintains open-source packages across crates.io and npm.

  • Designed REST and WebSocket interfaces
  • Optimized PostgreSQL queries and schemas
  • Built reproducible environments with NixOS
  • Won an IEEE hardware-demo award for side-channel tooling
RustTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonCC++
Interviewing now €80k-100k/yr
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