Senior Software Developer, Rust

Crosscut; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Narvar is seeking a senior Rust engineer to bring Rust into the backbone of our highly scalable platform. This remote role in Canada focuses on correctness, performance, and reliability, with ownership from architecture through rollout and operations.

You will design high-quality Rust services, work across a polyglot stack, and mentor others while maintaining safety guarantees and observability. EST/EDT or PDT/PST hours are supported, with fully remote work.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Rust experience in production
• Built distributed systems with strong concurrency
• Experience with APIs and data contracts evolution
• Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience deploying services in cloud (AWS/GCP)

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-correctness Rust services on critical paths
• Own architecture to rollout and operations
• Own concurrency, async boundaries, data integrity
• Collaborate across polyglot environment with other stacks
• Improve reliability and observability through design

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Async programming

Performance optimization

System architecture

Tools

AWS

GCP

Job description

We’re introducing Rust where correctness, performance, and reliability truly matter.

Narvar is Growing! Narvar is a multi-language platform, and we’re intentional about where we apply Rust. We’re looking for senior engineers to help us bring Rust into the backbone of the system — the parts that must be fast, safe, and correct under real-world scale.

This role is for engineers who want agency: people who enjoy identifying the right problems, choosing the right tools, and owning systems end-to-end. You won’t be handed a narrow ticket queue. You’ll help decide what gets built and how it should be built.

For this role, you should be located in Canada and able to work within EST/EDT or PDT/PST hours. We are fully remote.

Day-to-day

• Design and build high-correctness Rust services that sit on critical platform paths
• Introduce Rust into areas where safety, determinism, and performance are essential
• Own systems from architecture → implementation → rollout → operations
• Make real decisions around concurrency, async boundaries, data integrity, and failure modes
• Work across service boundaries in a polyglot environment (Rust alongside other stacks)
• Collaborate with product, design, and frontend engineers to build systems that are technically sound and product-aware
• Improve reliability, observability, and system behavior through design, not just patching
• Mentor other engineers and raise the bar on system quality and ownership

What We’re Looking For

We care more about judgment and ownership than credentials.

You’re likely a strong fit if you:

• Have built and operated distributed systems in production
• Have deep hands-on Rust experience (not just experiments or side projects)
• Understand where Rust shines — and where it doesn’t
• Are comfortable reasoning about concurrency, async systems, and correctness guarantees
• Have experience designing APIs and data contracts that evolve safely over time
• Have worked with relational and/or NoSQL databases at scale
• Have deployed and operated services in AWS or GCP (We are a GCP Shop though!)
• Take initiative naturally and are comfortable operating with ambiguity
• Communicate clearly and make tradeoffs explicit

Bonus Points

These aren’t hard requirements, but strong indicators:

• You’ve worked in startup or high-ownership environments
• You’ve owned systems in production, including on‑call responsibility
• You’re comfortable moving across the stack when needed (backend‑first, full‑stack aware)
• You’ve influenced architecture by earning trust, not by mandate
• You use modern tooling (including AI‑assisted workflows) to increase leverage, not outsource thinking

(Note: we care about outcome and judgment, not how flashy your tools are.)

Why Rust at Narvar?

Because some parts of the system deserve stronger guarantees.

We use Rust where:

• Bugs are expensive
• Latency and throughput matter
• Safety and correctness are non‑negotiable

You’ll help define where Rust belongs, not just write Rust in isolation.

Why Narvar (From an Engineer’s Perspective)?

• Real scale, real customers, real impacts
• Startup‑level ownership with platform‑level impact
• Teams that value thinking, judgment, and responsibility

Low ego, high trust, and room to do your best work

Why Narvar?

We’re on a mission to simplify the everyday lives of consumers. Post‑purchase is a critical phase of the customer journey. That’s why we created Narvar - a platform focused on driving customer loyalty through seamless post‑purchase experiences that allow retailers to retain, engage, and delight customers. If you’ve ever bought something online, there’s a good chance you’ve used our platform!

From the hottest new direct‑to‑consumer companies to retail’s most renowned brands, Narvar works with GameStop, Neiman Marcus, Sonos, Nike, and 1300+ + other brands. With hubs in San Francisco, Atlanta, London, and Bangalore, we’ve served over 125 million consumers worldwide across 10+ billion interactions, 38 countries, and 55 languages.

Pioneering the post‑purchase movement means navigating into the unknown. Our team thrives on this sense of adventure while nurturing a mindset of innovation. We’re a home for big hearts and we leave our egos at the door. We work hard but we always make time to celebrate professional wins, baby showers, birthday parties, and everything in between.

We are an equal‑opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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