Senior Rust Backend Engineer - Distributed Systems

TalentCloud Group; Zürich; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TalentCloud Group is seeking an experienced Rust backend engineer in Zürich to design, develop, and maintain high-stakes software systems. You will work on distributed, scalable solutions with a strong emphasis on stability, security, and performance.

German language fluency is mandatory, and you will collaborate closely with engineers and architects on architectural decisions. You will design, implement and test production-grade Rust code, participate in modern development practices, and

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience.
• At least 2 years of hands-on commercial Rust experience.
• Strong Rust concepts knowledge: ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, async.
• Experience with Rust libraries such as Tokio, Serde, Actix.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes; Agile software development practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain backend software using Rust.
• Work on complex backend and distributed systems.
• Build reliable, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
• Contribute to software architecture and design decisions.
• Write clean, well-tested production-ready code and collaborate with stakeholders.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Backend development

Ownership/Borrowing/Lifetimes

Async/Await

Architecture design

Automated testing

Agile development

Software engineering

Communication skills

Tools

Tokio

Serde

Actix

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

TalentCloud Group is seeking an experienced Rust backend engineer in Zürich to design, develop, and maintain high-stakes software systems. You will work on distributed, scalable solutions with a strong emphasis on stability, security, and performance.

German language fluency is mandatory, and you will collaborate closely with engineers and architects on architectural decisions. You will design, implement and test production-grade Rust code, participate in modern development practices, and