Senior Rust Backend Engineer – Flexible, High-Performance

Clicks IT Recruitment; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent role

Challenging Rust problems

Influence architecture

Collaborative environment

Chatswood location with flexible work

Job summary

Clicks is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer in Sydney to design, develop and optimise high-performance backend systems for large-scale data processing. You will work on asynchronous services, distributed architectures and APIs, collaborating with global teams to influence technical direction.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software engineering with strong Java and 2+ years in Rust production experience, plus deep expertise in memory ownership, concurrency and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong Java development expertise.
• 2+ years of hands-on commercial Rust development experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with asynchronous Rust programming, ideally using Tokio.
• Deep understanding of Rust memory ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, allocations and buffer management.
• Proven experience building distributed systems or high-performance backend applications.
• Strong knowledge of concurrency, backpressure handling, cancellation, streams and async execution models.
• Experience designing APIs, internal libraries or reusable engineering frameworks.
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills.
• Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and drive solutions to delivery.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain high-performance backend systems using Rust and Java.
• Build scalable, reliable asynchronous services using modern concurrency patterns.
• Develop APIs, internal tooling, reusable libraries and engineering frameworks.
• Contribute to system architecture and technical decision-making.
• Deliver solutions for large-scale data processing workloads.
• Partner with engineering, product and platform teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Take ownership of technically complex and ambiguous challenges.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Work effectively with globally distributed teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Java development

Rust development

Asynchronous Rust

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Debugging

Communication

Tools

Tokio

Job description

Clicks is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer in Sydney to design, develop and optimise high-performance backend systems for large-scale data processing. You will work on asynchronous services, distributed architectures and APIs, collaborating with global teams to influence technical direction.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software engineering with strong Java and 2+ years in Rust production experience, plus deep expertise in memory ownership, concurrency and performance tuning.