DEPT®

Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer, Contract - US

DEPT® · United States

Posted about a month ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
33 days
DEPT®'s roles stay open a median of 45 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
10% of DEPT®'s roles list one
Ghost-job risk at DEPT®
low
0 stale, 15 reposted of 220 open
Hiring momentum
374 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-09-17

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About this role

The Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining production Rust applications, with a focus on backend development in a distributed, containerized environment. The role includes writing and optimizing SQL queries, debugging applications, contributing to frontend development with React, and mentoring junior engineers. The engineer will also implement observability and maintain services in Kubernetes environments while communicating technical decisions effectively within the team.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
2/5
freshness
3/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
5/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • 5+ years of experience creating and managing Rust applications in production environments
  • Strong command of Rust's ownership model, lifetime system, trait system, and error handling patterns
  • Experience with the async Rust ecosystem (Tokio, async-std, or equivalent runtimes)
  • Proficiency with common Rust web frameworks and libraries (Actix, Axum, Warp, or equivalent)
  • Demonstrated ability to debug Rust applications in production: diagnosing panics, memory issues, deadlocks, and performance bottlenecks
  • Strong systems/backend engineering experience in a production setting

What you get

  • Rate is up to $87 hourly on a Fixed Term, W2 Contract
  • Contracts are evaluated quarterly, or every three months, for this project, and will likely extend
  • Flexible work arrangements

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed beyond hourly rate
  • Contract role may not provide long-term job security
  • Role requires a strong focus on backend development with less emphasis on frontend work
  • Mentoring junior engineers may require additional time and effort

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Listed by DEPT® on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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