Senior Rust Developer Job at Light IT Global (London)

Requirements

5+ years of professional Rust development experience
Deep understanding of async Rust: Tokio runtime and ecosystem, Futures, streams, and async traits, Pin, Send, Sync bounds, Backpressure and flow control
Strong systems programming background: Concurrent and parallel programming, Lock-free data structures (Arc, DashMap), Memory management and performance optimization
Database experience: PostgreSQL, ORM experience (Diesel preferred), Schema migrations, Connection pooling, Transaction management
Distributed systems knowledge: Message queues (Kafka preferred), At-least-once and exactly-once semantics, Distributed state management, Partitioning and sharding strategies
gRPC and protocol buffers: Service definition and implementation, Streaming RPC patterns, Error handling in RPC
Testing discipline: Unit and integration testing, Async test patterns, Property-based testing, Test containers

Kubernetes experience: Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), Operators and controllers, Kubernetes API client usage
AWS services: S3 (especially multipart uploads) EKS, ECR, IAM policies and roles, CodeArtifact
Security: HashiCorp Vault, TLS/mTLS implementation, JWT authentication and authorization, PKI certificate management
Parser/compiler experience: Parser combinator libraries, Type systems and type inference, AST transformations, Code generation
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (understanding deployments)
Cargo ecosystem: Workspace management, Proc macros and derive macros, Feature flags and conditional compilation
AI-assisted development: Experience with AI coding tools (Cursor IDE, GitHub Copilot, or similar), Ability to effectively leverage AI for code generation and refactoring, Understanding of AI tool limitations and when to review/modify AI-generated code, Comfortable with modern AI-augmented development workflows