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Lead Rust Software Engineer

210k – 250kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemote10+ YOE
Summary

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.

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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