Rust Engineer (Part Time)

About the Role

Remotebase places senior engineers with fast-growing product companies around the world. We’re building a pool of experienced Rust Developers for Part-time Engagements with our clients. You’ll build and maintain high-performance, reliable backend and systems software. Projects range from backend services and APIs to infrastructure tooling, data pipelines and performance-critical components.

This role suits engineers who already write production Rust and want flexible, meaningful work alongside their other commitments.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build and maintain production-grade services and libraries in Rust
• Write safe, idiomatic and well-tested code, with careful attention to performance and memory use
• Build async services with Tokio and frameworks such as Axum, Actix-web or Tonic (gRPC)
• Profile and optimize hot paths, and find and fix concurrency, latency and memory issues
• Integrate with databases, message queues and cloud infrastructure
• Review code, guide less-experienced engineers and contribute to technical design decisions
• Work asynchronously with distributed teams, with clear written communication

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years of production Rust
• A deep understanding of ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits and g