Job Description

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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Rust Developer to contribute to an innovative project focused on evaluating AI-assisted Rust development. The role involves working on real-world Rust codebases, implementing new features, debugging, refactoring, and ensuring memory safety and correctness through comprehensive testing.

Job Details:

Engagement Type: Full-time Contract (8 hours/day)
Engagement Length: 6 months
Notice Period: 2-3 weeks
Time Overlap: Minimum 5 hours with PST
Location: Remote
Hourly Rate: $10 - $22 USD/hr

Key Responsibilities:

• Navigate and modify complex Rust codebases using CLI tools like grep and ripgrep.
• Develop new features with a focus on memory safety, ownership rules, and type correctness.
• Write and execute tests using cargo test, including property-based testing (proptest or quickcheck).
• Refactor Rust code to improve maintainability and performance while preserving functionality.
• Debug and resolve issues related to memory safety, ownership, and concurrency.
• Set up and manage Rust development environments using cargo, handling dependencies and feature flags.
• Follow best practices in Rust development, ensuring error handling, concurrency safety, and efficient memory usage.

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of Rust programming experience, including expertise in ownership, borrowing, and lifetimes.
• Proficiency in Rust frameworks such as Tokio, Actix, and Rocket.
• Experience working with Rust libraries like Serde and Rayon.
• Strong knowledge of Rust's testing ecosystem, including unit, integration, and property-based testing.
• Understanding of multi-threading and asynchronous programming in Rust.
• Ability to work with complex architectural patterns and refactor code without introducing regressions.
• Strong debugging skills for memory safety and concurrency issues.
• Experience with performance profiling and benchmarking using cargo bench.
• At least 4+ years of overall software development experience.

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