Senior Software Engineer - RUST

GSSTech Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Dubai seeks an experienced Senior Rust Developer to work on projects for a large UAE bank. Candidates should have a deep understanding of Rust and its ecosystem, along with experience in banking or fintech environments. Responsibilities include writing secure and efficient backend code, optimizing performance, and collaborating with various teams. Competitive compensation is offered, along with opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of development and design experience in Rust programming.
• Experience in Banking, Financial and Fintech environment preferred.
• Strong understanding of ownership model, concurrency, memory management.

Responsibilities

• Write backend code that is fast, reliable, and secure.
• Benchmark performance, identify and resolve bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to drive productivity.

Skills

Rust programming

C++ or Java

Multi-threaded applications

Microservices Design Patterns

Docker

Kubernetes

Performance tuning

API gateway integrations

Education

Post graduate in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AppDynamics

Dynatrace

SonarQube

Checkmarx

Fortify

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a skilled Senior Rust Developer to join our team and work on exciting projects for a large UAE bank!

Education

• Degree, Post graduate in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent industry experience)

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of development and design experience in Rust programming language.
• Work experience with Rust and a solid foundation with C++ or Java.
• Ability to write robust, highly efficient, reliable code.
• Experience writing multi-threaded applications.
• Experience in Microservices Design Patterns: CQRS, SAGA, Circuit Breaker, API Gateway, Service Discovery, etc.
• Hands-on experience in profiling tools like AppDynamics / Dynatrace, performance tuning, debugging, monitoring.
• Understanding of containerization, experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Benchmark performance, identify performance bottlenecks, and find ways to resolve them.
• Write backend code that is fast, reliable, but also highly secure.

Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of ownership model, concurrency, memory management.
• Extensive working experience using structs, traits, cargo, smart pointers in Rust.
• Extensive understanding / working experience with popular crates, build and deployment of production-grade applications.
• Extensive coding experience with SOLID principles, Event Driven Architecture (Kafka), MongoDB, Redis, and have passion for coding.
• Good hands-on experience with design patterns (Creational / Structural / Behavioural) and their implementation.
• Well versed with CI / CD principles, actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem.
• Good experience in Quality gate tools like SonarQube, Checkmarx / Fortify.
• Familiar with distributed services resiliency and monitoring in a production environment.
• Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale, Kong, etc.
• Understanding of single sign-on or token-based authentication (REST, JWT, OAuth).

Functional Skills

• Experience in following best coding, security, unit testing and documentation standards and practices.
• Experience in Banking, Financial and Fintech experience in an enterprise environment preferred.
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best-in-class technologies.

Soft Skills

• Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing deep knowledge and experience.
• Self-motivator and self-starter, ability to own and drive things without supervision and work collaboratively with the teams across the organization.
• Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present ideas to Senior and Executive management.