Remote Rust Architect for Scalable AI Backends

Zekai; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a highly skilled Rust Architect / Backend Developer to contribute to an AI-training project involving production Rust, backend architecture, asynchronous and concurrent systems, service design, infrastructure, and technical debugging.

The role requires strong programming ability and the judgment to evaluate whether backend systems are correct, reliable, maintainable, and suitable for production use.

Qualifications

• Advanced Rust development experience in production environments.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous/concurrent systems.
• Experience translating requirements into robust backend implementations.

Responsibilities

• Solve and validate Rust backend problems involving service behavior, APIs, persistence, concurrency, performance, and reliability.
• Translate requirements and targets into reproducible implementation and testing workflows.
• Prepare Rust crate workspaces, configuration files, test fixtures, and containerized environments.

Skills

Rust

Backend service design

APIs

Data systems

Concurrency

Production software architecture

Tools

Rust

Docker

Job description

Zekai is seeking a highly skilled Rust Architect / Backend Developer to contribute to an AI-training project involving production Rust, backend architecture, asynchronous and concurrent systems, service design, infrastructure, and technical debugging.

The role requires strong programming ability and the judgment to evaluate whether backend systems are correct, reliable, maintainable, and suitable for production use.