Senior Rust Engineer — Remote Systems & Performance Lead

Kake; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 523,000 - 710,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive USD pay

Fully remote

Better Me Fund

Job summary

Kake is a remote-first company seeking Senior Rust Engineers to own scalable backend services and distributed systems. You will design memory-safe Rust solutions, write high-performance concurrent code, and apply Tokio-based asynchronous patterns across mission-critical projects.

The role emphasizes owning architecture, mentoring teams, and improving tooling while partnering with a global community of engineers. US timezone overlap and fully remote collaboration are expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on Rust.
• Deep understanding of ownership model, borrow checker, lifetimes, traits, and macros.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, memory-safe backend services in Rust.
• Build high-performance, concurrent code for distributed systems.
• Develop asynchronous services using Tokio and async/await patterns.
• Guide architectural decisions and elevate engineering standards across projects.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and modern git workflows.

Skills

Rust

System programming

Asynchronous programming

Tokio

Distributed systems

Tools

Cargo

Git workflows

CI/CD

Job description

Kake is a remote-first company seeking Senior Rust Engineers to own scalable backend services and distributed systems. You will design memory-safe Rust solutions, write high-performance concurrent code, and apply Tokio-based asynchronous patterns across mission-critical projects.

The role emphasizes owning architecture, mentoring teams, and improving tooling while partnering with a global community of engineers. US timezone overlap and fully remote collaboration are expected.