Senior Rust Engineer — Remote Backend Systems Leader

Kake; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 103,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Pay in USD

Fully Remote

Better Me Fund

Compassion is Badass

Job summary

Kake, a remote-first company with a 45,000+ engineer community, seeks Senior Rust Engineers to build scalable, memory-safe backend systems and drive engineering excellence across projects. In this role you’ll own async Rust services (Tokio), master ownership models and macros, and contribute to tooling, CI/CD, and architecture with distributed teams worldwide.

Strong English and independent remote work are a must.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with hands-on Rust.
• Deep understanding of Rust ownership model, borrow checker, lifetimes, traits, and macros.
• Experience with systems programming including multi-threading and concurrency.
• Hands-on asynchronous programming in Rust using Tokio.
• Proficient with Rust toolchain: Cargo, Git, CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, memory-safe backend services and distributed systems in Rust.
• Write high-performance, concurrent code with strong systems programming principles.
• Build and maintain asynchronous services using Tokio and async/await patterns.
• Apply core Rust concepts to write robust, idiomatic code.
• Lead architectural decisions and elevate engineering standards across projects.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production challenges.
• Contribute to tooling and continuous improvement initiatives across engineering.

Skills

Rust

Systems programming

Concurrency

Async programming

English communication

Remote work

Tools

Tokio

Cargo

Git workflows

CI/CD

Job description

Kake, a remote-first company with a 45,000+ engineer community, seeks Senior Rust Engineers to build scalable, memory-safe backend systems and drive engineering excellence across projects. In this role you’ll own async Rust services (Tokio), master ownership models and macros, and contribute to tooling, CI/CD, and architecture with distributed teams worldwide.

Strong English and independent remote work are a must.