Senior Rust Software Engineer

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

What is this role about?

In simple terms, you will be building and improving backend software in Rust for complex, business-critical systems.

You will work on systems that need to be stable, secure and able to handle a lot of activity, so this is not a basic application development role. You will be involved in designing the software, writing the code, testing it properly and helping decide how the overall system should be built.

The role is a good fit for someone who enjoys technical problem-solving, backend development, distributed systems and writing high-quality Rust code.

You will work closely with other experienced engineers and technical stakeholders, so strong communication skills are important.

Fluent German is a firm requirement for this position.

Unfortunately, candidates without strong German language skills cannot be considered for this role.

What you will be doing

• Design, develop and maintain software applications using Rust
• Work on complex backend and distributed systems
• Build reliable, scalable and maintainable software solutions
• Contribute to software architecture and technical design decisions
• Write clean, well-tested and production-ready code
• Work with modern development, testing and deployment practices
• Collaborate closely with engineers, architects and other technical stakeholders
• Support continuous improvements across software development processes

What we are looking for

• At least 5 years of professional software development experience
• At least 2 years of hands-on commercial Rust experience
• Strong understanding of core Rust concepts, including:
  • Ownership
  • Borrowing
  • Lifetimes
  • Async/Await
• Experience with Rust libraries or frameworks such as Tokio, Serde, Actix, or similar
• Experience working with distributed or event-driven systems
• Good understanding of software architecture and design principles
• Experience with automated testing and modern software engineering practices
• Experience with technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Comfortable working within Agile development environments
• Experience working on complex or business-critical systems

Language requirements

• German: Strong professional fluency is mandatory
• English: Strong professional fluency

Nice to have

Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:

• Financial services or regulated environments
• Large-scale enterprise software
• Cloud environments
• CI/CD pipelines
• Linux environments
• Distributed systems
• Microservices
• SAFe or similar scaled Agile environments

The ideal profile

You are an experienced software engineer who enjoys solving technically challenging problems rather than simply building standard applications.

You have genuine hands-on Rust experience, understand how Rust works beyond basic syntax, and are comfortable discussing topics such as ownership, memory safety, concurrency and asynchronous programming.

You are also comfortable working in an environment where software quality, reliability and maintainability are important.