Senior Rust Engineer - Remote, High-Performance Backend

Kake; Amsterdam; Remote; EUR 107,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay in USD

Fully remote

Better Me Fund

Compassion is Badass

Job summary

Kake is a remote-first company and a people-first global community of senior engineers. We’re looking for Senior Rust Engineers with strong systems programming experience to own scalable backend services and distributed systems.

You’ll work on high-performance, memory-safe code using Tokio and async/await, and lead architectural decisions in a fast-paced, remote environment. Join a global team spanning multiple time zones, with USD compensation, full remote work, and opportunities to influence

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with hands-on work in Rust.
• Deep understanding of core Rust concepts such as the ownership model, borrow checker, lifetimes, traits, and macros.
• Experience with systems programming, including multithreading, concurrency, and performance-critical application development.
• Hands-on experience with asynchronous programming in Rust, particularly using frameworks like Tokio.
• Comfortable with the Rust toolchain, including Cargo, modern git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience designing and implementing highly scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, memory-safe backend services and distributed systems in Rust.
• Write high-performance, concurrent code, applying strong systems programming principles.
• Build and maintain asynchronous services using frameworks such as Tokio, with a solid understanding of async/await patterns.
• Apply core Rust concepts such as the ownership model, borrow checker, lifetimes, traits, and macros to write robust, idiomatic code.
• Act as a technical leader, guiding architectural decisions and elevating the engineering bar across projects.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex architectural and coding challenges in production systems.
• Contribute to best practices, tooling, and continuous improvement initiatives across engineering projects.
• Maintain modern git workflows and CI/CD pipelines to support reliable delivery.

Skills

5+ years of experience in software

Rust

Systems programming

Multithreading

Concurrency

Asynchronous Rust

English communication

Tools

Tokio

Cargo

Git workflows

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Kake is a remote-first company and a people-first global community of senior engineers. We’re looking for Senior Rust Engineers with strong systems programming experience to own scalable backend services and distributed systems.

You’ll work on high-performance, memory-safe code using Tokio and async/await, and lead architectural decisions in a fast-paced, remote environment. Join a global team spanning multiple time zones, with USD compensation, full remote work, and opportunities to influence