# Lead Rust Software Engineer

**Company:** [Machinify](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/machinify)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $210k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Rust, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Scala, Machine Learning, System Architecture, Testing, Full-Stack Development
**Posted:** 2026-04-07

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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**

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