Senior Software Engineer (Rust) Contract

Role: Senior Software Engineer (Rust)
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Engagement: Contractual
Duration: 06 Months (Extendable, Long-term with Marc Ellis)

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in Rust to design, develop, and scale high-
performance backend systems. This role is ideal for a passionate technologist who thrives on writing safe,
concurrent, and efficient code while building scalable microservices and distributed systems. You will work in a
collaborative environment that values clean architecture, performance, and innovation.

Education:

• Degree, Postgraduate in Computer Science or related field

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of development and design experience in RUST programming language.
• Work experience with Rust and a solid foundation with C++ or Java.
• Ability to write robust, highly efficient, reliable code.
• Experience writing multi-threaded applications.
• Experience in Micro services Design Patterns: (CQRS, SAGA, Circuit Breaker, API Gateway, Service
Discovery etc)
• Hands on experience in Profiling tools like AppDynamics/Dynatrace, performance tuning, debugging,
monitoring.
• Understanding of containerization, experienced in Dockers, Kubernetes.
• Benchmark performance, identify performance bottlenecks, and find ways to resolve them.
• Write backend code that is fast, reliable, but also highly secure.

Technical Skills:

• Strong understanding of ownership model, concurrency, memory management.
• Extensive working experience using structs, traits, cargo, smart pointers in RUST.
• Extensive understanding / working experience with popular crates, build and deployment production
grade application.
• Extensive coding experience with SOLID principles, Event Driven Architecture (Kafka), MongoDB,
Redis, and have passion for coding.
• Good hands-on experience with design patterns (Creational/Structural/Behavioral) and their
implementation.
• Well versed with CI/CD principles, actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed
services ecosystem
• Good experience in Quality gate tools like SonarQube, Checkmarks/fortify.
• Familiar with Distributed services resiliency and monitoring in a production environment.
• Exposed to API gateway integrations like 3Scale, Kong etc
• Understanding of Single-Sign-on or token-based authentication (Rest, JWT, oAuth)

Functional Skills:

• Experience in following best Coding, Security, Unit testing and Documentation standards and
practices.
• Experience in Banking, Financial and Fintech experience in an enterprise environment preferred.
• Experience in Agile methodology.
• Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Soft Skills:

• Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and
effectiveness by sharing deep knowledge and experience.
• Self-motivator and self-starter, Ability to own and drive things without supervision and work
collaboratively with the teams across the organization
• Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact and present ideas to Senior and Executive
management