The Rust Development Lead is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing high-quality software solutions for the company that is efficient, readable, scalable, lean, and cloud-friendly and for providing leadership within the Rust Team. 

 Required activities and tasks: 

• Creating the architectural designs, planning the development process, and execution
• Building software using programming language Rust and other languages (C++, go, etc.) 
• Multi-platform development (Linux, Windows, AWS, Azure, GCP) 
• Participate as an active member in Architecture forums, make proposals, and decisions
• Planning and team learnings, Organize planning sessions and retrospective 
• Provide guidance in planning for development  
• Provide data on the performance of developers in retrospective 
• Take an active part in refinement meetings with Refinement issues - Product and Engineering Manager 
• Research new technology, performance testing, working with DevOps and Support 
• Liaising with DevOps on environments needed for Development 
• Working with Support on high-profile urgent issues 
• Working with other lead developers from other teams 
• Working with the Product Owner and Senior Project Manager to help refine issues 
• Provide an example of standardization of work – the lead’s issues contain description, architectural breakdown, and clear and clean code with reasons why the direction was chosen 
• Daily update of reports – allowing teams to see progress 
• Time management Code Reviews, Architectural Discussions, Merging 
• Development of own lead issues 
• Working with frontend, backend, and DevOps teams to improve test coverage and test environment 
• Suggestions to improve ways of working e.g., when a new developer starts we set up a few basic examples of ways of working. Working with Hubstaff and Git 
• Providing information and decisions on new libraries when required 
• Research, analysis, and evaluation of software applications and operating system needs; and capturing of that research in the Gitlab repository 
• Research, design, and develop the product architecture 
• Daily committing of code into the Gitlab repository
• Estimation and collaboration in planning sessions via digital video conference facilities 
• Testing both manual and unit tests of software developed by yourself and your teammates 
• Modifying existing software to fix bugs, adjust to new hardware, or improve performance 
• Management of software programming and documentation development; where required discussion with technical writers to explain work that has been completed 
• Participation in development and testing – through the writing of code, unit tests of your own work, as well as code review of teammates, work 
• Planning of work and leave to ensure that project timelines are not jeopardized 
• Provide input to technical writers where documentation is required 
• Communicating where constraints will be missed i.e. timings or technology stack 
• Continuous learning on new networking technologies and software products, technologies 
• Strive to develop innovations that serve the company strategy and overall team performance 

Requirements:

• At least 4-5 years of programming experience with the Rust language.
• 10+ years in systems programming, which may include other languages (C++, go, etc).
• 5+ years of experience as Lead Developer.
• Building and working in high-performance agile software development teams. 
• Building processes to support highly effective teams. 
• Network programming skills.
• Multithreaded programming knowledge.
• Experience with SSL/TLS APIs.
• Good algorithmic skills.
• Debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills.
• Secure coding practices.
• Care for the quality and readability of your code.
• Passionate about hacking on Linux systems while also feeling at home on Windows. Multi-platform development experience.

Nice to have:

• Experience in building distributed systems,
• Build automation,
• Prior experience working as a software architect.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP),
• Master’s degree in Information Technology or similar,
• Customer-oriented and able to communicate in English,

Most importantly you should be a quick learner and eager to jump on and understand new technologies.