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Lead Rust Software Engineer

Leads Rust development on the Subrogate team, building scalable web applications with ML integration, mentoring on Rust best practices, and architecting reliable systems impacting healthcare outcomes. Requires 10+ years backend experience and expertise in Rust plus Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Scala.

210k – 250k/yr
Remote10+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Rust Coach/Multiplier - An expert Rust engineer who not only builds production-grade systems in Rust, but also sets standards, mentors others, and elevates the team’s overall Rust maturity. Serving as a technical authority on Rust idioms, safety, and performance, and helps teams adopt Rust effectively and sustainably.
  • Contribute to new product development of complex in-browser applications, taking advantage of your holistic view to ensure our application is extensible, scalable, and secure
  • Balance customer-facing features and technical debt cleanup to keep the software suite sustainable
  • Architect and implement complex applications that apply ML techniques to large volumes of data, simplifying labor-intensive processes through good user experience
  • Design systems that work together to deliver a good-performing, reliable application

What You Bring

  • 10+ years of experience spread across backend programming (additional full-stack experienced highly desired)
  • Expert Rust developer
  • Additional experience with languages in use on all layers of the stack: Java, TypeScript, and JavaScript; Scala
  • Experience reading and understanding complex code and improving it
  • Experience owning code quality through testing
  • Critical thinking and problem solving skills working in a high growth environment
  • A collaborative approach to problem-solving
  • Curiosity and the ability to learn new things on the job
  • Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to help resolve it
  • BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

Pay range: $210,000-250,000

Skills

RustJavaTypeScriptJavaScriptScalaMachine LearningSystem ArchitectureTestingFull-Stack Development

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