Senior Back-end Engineer

Toptal

East Europe
On-site
Rust for cli tools and api server
Api design, async web frameworks
Authentication, databases, service architecture
Contribute to the vision and development of Agentic AI tooling and platforms through technical leadership and proactive thinking

Job Summary

  • Contribute to the vision and development of Agentic AI tooling and platforms through technical leadership and proactive thinking.
  • Lead initiatives and own subproducts and feature development from problem statement and specification to production deployment.
  • Proactively identify technical debt and product areas that require attention or improvements and suggest improvements in our technology stack.

Matching Summary

Contribute to the vision and development of Agentic AI tooling and platforms through technical leadership and proactive thinking.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Rust for CLI tools and API server
  • API design, async web frameworks
  • authentication, databases, service architecture
  • Kubernetes with Helm on Google Cloud
  • experience with async web frameworks
  • experience with databases and caching layers
  • experience with authentication/authorization systems
  • experience with WebSocket or real-time communication protocols

Nice-to-have

  • technical leadership and proactive thinking
  • identify problems worth solving, define requirements
  • own features from problem statement to production
  • startup fashion with heavy focus on experimentation
  • thriving in autonomy in every aspect of daily work
  • being a team player by avoiding solo performances
  • caring for quality through impactful tests
  • caring for architecture and best practices

Key Requirements

  • 8+ years of software development experience
  • 5+ years with systems-level or backend technologies
  • Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
  • Experience with frontend technologies such as React
  • Adopted agentic development tool & practices
  • Strong knowledge of functional and object-oriented programming
  • Ability to consider multiple quality dimensions

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