Back End Developer - Rust (Remote)

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Back End Developer - Rust

Location: Silver Spring, MD (Remote – ET working hours)

Duration: 12 Months

The Role: We are actively seeking a motivated Back-end Developer to enhance our dynamic team. The ideal candidate is a team player who works well with others but is also able to work independently. You excel at creating and improving scalable services in line with innovations. As a Back-end Developer, your role could include building services, REST APIs, and state aware workflows largely in cloud environments. We love collaborating with teammates on new app designs, partnering with front-end developers, Quality Analysts, Business Analysts, and other team members to combine work into a cohesive product, and improving existing services.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain applications using cloud architecture working in Jira and Git
• Ability to build from user stories and be active in technical design
• Build efficient, scalable, secure, and observable applications
• Able to take and give feedback in team meetings and code review
• Build and maintain highly scalable services and workflows
• Be proactive and responsive in addressing technical issues

Must Have Skills:

• Rust and additional scripting language experience
• 5+ years of experience in Rust is required; Node, Python, Go.
• Database Integration experience
• 3+ years of experience; Ingesting data, making queries, updating and populating documents – Relevant skills and experience.
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
• 3+ years of experience.

Technology Requirements:

• Capable of self-deployments in a well-defined container pipeline
• Firm understanding of cloud infrastructure
• Solid experience with Rust and one or more of the following: Node, Python, Go
• Understanding of SQL and document database development
• Experience with workflow engines (SDVI Rally, Airflow, Step Functions, Argo Workflows, Jenkins, etc.)

Background and Soft Skills: Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Nice to Have Skills: Experience working in Media/Entertainment.