About This Role
This engineering role focuses on building fast, reliable, and memory-safe backend systems using Rust. The developer will be responsible for designing and writing production Rust services, improving performance, and collaborating with DevOps, QA, and product teams, owning the code from design through production.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain high-performance backend services and libraries in Rust
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable code and take part in code reviews
- Build asynchronous, concurrent systems using Tokio and related libraries
- Design APIs and service-to-service communication using REST, gRPC and messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ)
- Work with PostgreSQL and other data stores (Redis, MongoDB), including schema design, indexing and query tuning
- Profile, benchmark and optimize services for latency, throughput and memory use
- Add logging, metrics and tracing (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana) and help debug production incidents
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments and testing standards
- Mentor junior developers and help spread good Rust practices across the team
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend development, including 1+ years of production Rust
- Strong command of Rust fundamentals: ownership and borrowing, lifetimes, traits, error handling and async/await
- Hands-on experience with Tokio and common crates (Serde, Axum or Actix, SQLx or Diesel)
- Solid understanding of concurrency, multithreading and memory management
- Experience with PostgreSQL and at least one messaging system (Kafka or RabbitMQ)
- Experience with Docker, Git and CI/CD pipelines, and comfort working on Linux
- Experience profiling and optimizing performance-critical code
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly
Nice to have:
- Background in C or C++, Go, Python or Java alongside Rust
- Experience with gRPC, Kubernetes, and a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Experience with low-latency systems, trading or fintech platforms
- Experience with embedded systems, networking or security tooling
- Open-source contributions to Rust projects
- Familiarity with Terraform or Helm
- Experience with WebAssembly or blockchain technologies
Benefits
- Healthcare Benefit Package
- Career Growth
About the Company
Charger Logistics Inc. is a world-class asset-based carrier with locations across North America. With over 20 years of experience providing logistics solutions, Charger Logistics has transformed into a world-class transport provider and continues to grow.
