or apply directly on DEPT®'s site. We never take the application ourselves.
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
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from DEPT®'s own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for DEPT®.
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.
- benefits
- 2/5
- freshness
- 3/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of DEPT® as an employer.
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
Summarised from DEPT®'s posting. Read the full original.
Listed by DEPT® on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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