Contract Backend Engineer - Rust or .NET, Scale & Cloud

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Competitive day rate

Modern stack

Rust in production

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking a Contract Software Engineer to join Belfast-based engineering teams on a hybrid basis. You will deliver production-grade services in Rust or .NET, contributing to distributed systems, data models, and modern CI/CD practices.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, collaboration with permanent engineers, and potential front-end work in React where needed, all within a modern technology stack that handles enterprise-scale data.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in Rust or .NET Core 8+.
• Experience building and running distributed microservices.
• Hands-on AWS experience including containerised deployment with Kubernetes.
• Solid PostgreSQL experience.
• Familiar with mature CI/CD and automated testing practices.
• Right to work in the UK and able to work on a hybrid basis from Belfast.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend services in Rust or modern .NET.
• Design and implement event-driven components using Kafka.
• Deploy and operate microservices on AWS using Kubernetes.
• Model and query data in PostgreSQL with performance in mind.
• Work within established CI/CD pipelines, contributing to automated testing and release quality.
• Collaborate with permanent engineering teams on architecture decisions.
• Contribute front-end work in React where applicable.
• Deliver production-ready code at pace without compromising standards.

Skills

Rust

.NET Core

Distributed microservices

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Right to work in the UK

Tools

Kafka

Job description

Ocho People is seeking a Contract Software Engineer to join Belfast-based engineering teams on a hybrid basis. You will deliver production-grade services in Rust or .NET, contributing to distributed systems, data models, and modern CI/CD practices.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, collaboration with permanent engineers, and potential front-end work in React where needed, all within a modern technology stack that handles enterprise-scale data.