Senior Rust Full-Stack Engineer (Contract)

Dept; United States; On-site; USD 72,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

DEPT is seeking a Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer to design, implement, and maintain production Rust applications in a distributed, containerized environment. The role balances backend Rust development with occasional frontend work and strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

You will write production Rust, debug in production, optimize queries, and participate in design of microservices and distributed systems. Relevant experience with CKD tooling and observability is required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Rust production environments.
• Strong ownership of Rust code and patterns.
• Experience with async Rust and common frameworks.
• Experience building APIs and backend services at scale.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production Rust applications, including backend services, APIs, and system-level components.
• Write and optimize complex SQL queries for performance and correctness at scale.
• Debug and troubleshoot Rust applications in production environments.
• Contribute to frontend development using React where needed, including micro frontend integration.
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain services in containerized Kubernetes environments.

Skills

Rust production

Backend systems

SQL querying

React frontend

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Tools

Actix

Axum

Warp

PostgreSQL

Job description

DEPT is seeking a Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer to design, implement, and maintain production Rust applications in a distributed, containerized environment. The role balances backend Rust development with occasional frontend work and strong emphasis on reliability and performance.

You will write production Rust, debug in production, optimize queries, and participate in design of microservices and distributed systems. Relevant experience with CKD tooling and observability is required.