Remote Rust Backend Engineer for AI Tools & APIs

YO IT Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,880 - 312,480; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

YO IT Consulting seeks a Rust Developer - Backend AI Tools to build scalable backend services in a remote contract role. You will implement REST and GraphQL endpoints, enforce strong input validation, ensure security, and optimize databases while evaluating AI-assisted coding tools.

The role emphasizes production backend engineering, model-testing cycles with Cursor, and collaboration with engineering and research teams to improve developer workflows and tool effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of backend development experience.
• Strong production-level Rust expertise.
• Experience building RESTful APIs and GraphQL services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and optimize backend services using Rust.
• Build scalable REST and GraphQL endpoints for production applications.
• Define API contracts, request/response structures, and service boundaries.
• Implement robust data validation and error-handling strategies.
• Write clean, well-documented Rust code and perform unit/integration tests.

Skills

Rust

Backend development

REST APIs

GraphQL

API security

Data validation

Unit testing

Integration testing

Database design

Performance tuning

Docker

Git

CI/CD

Tools

Cursor

Job description

YO IT Consulting seeks a Rust Developer - Backend AI Tools to build scalable backend services in a remote contract role. You will implement REST and GraphQL endpoints, enforce strong input validation, ensure security, and optimize databases while evaluating AI-assisted coding tools.

The role emphasizes production backend engineering, model-testing cycles with Cursor, and collaboration with engineering and research teams to improve developer workflows and tool effectiveness.