Remote Senior Rust Backend Engineer - Part-Time

Remotebase; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote with office optional

Flexible timings

Market competitive compensation

Job summary

Remotebase places senior engineers with fast-growing product companies worldwide. We’re building a pool of experienced Rust Developers for part-time engagements.

You’ll build and maintain high-performance backend systems and tooling, including APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure components. This role suits engineers who write production Rust and want flexible, meaningful work alongside other commitments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of production Rust experience
• Strong understanding of ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits and generics
• Experience with async Rust (Tokio, futures, Send/Sync)
• Experience with backend services in production
• Knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases via Rust crates
• Familiarity with Docker, Linux and a cloud provider

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain production-grade services and libraries in Rust
• Write safe, idiomatic, well-tested code with attention to performance
• Build async services with Tokio and frameworks (Axum, Actix-web, Tonic)
• Profile and optimize hot paths and fix concurrency issues
• Integrate with databases, queues and cloud infrastructure
• Review code and guide less-experienced engineers
• Work asynchronously with distributed teams and communicate clearly

Skills

Rust

Async Rust

CI/CD

English communication

Distributed teams

Tools

sqlx

Diesel

SeaORM

Docker

Linux

Job description

Remotebase places senior engineers with fast-growing product companies worldwide. We’re building a pool of experienced Rust Developers for part-time engagements.

You’ll build and maintain high-performance backend systems and tooling, including APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure components. This role suits engineers who write production Rust and want flexible, meaningful work alongside other commitments.