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Rust Developer (Senior/Staff)

  • Remote
    • Remote, Mazowieckie, Poland
  • SoftwareMill

Job description

We are SoftwareMill and in 2023 we were acquired by VirtusLab. Since then we are cooperating closely, working together for clients across the globe. At the same time we remain a separate organisation with own culture and processes.

At SoftwareMill we are a diverse group of individuals: passionate geeks, humanists, fantasy and karate fans, Apple and Android enthusiasts. It’s our differences, along with the values we share, reliability, and strong experience, that empower us to build one of the most employee-friendly companies in the IT industry.

And it’s not just our opinion ,our unique culture has earned us the title of Poland’s Best Workplace in the 50–99 employees category, awarded by Great Place to Work. We collaborate 100% remotely (no office since day one), from homes spread across Poland (and beyond)!

Interested in joining our team? See what it takes to become a SoftwareMiller and read job description to find out why we're a great match for Scala enthusiasts.

What we offer

  • Salary ranging from 1000 to 1480 PLN net per day for start

  • 100% remote company with a remote-first mindset

  • Full-time but not necessarily 9-17, we are flexible

  • Professional development and freedom in choosing the toolset and tech stack

  • Learning-culture expressed by SoftwareMill Academy and the technical reading club

  • Leadership and soft-skills in-house trainings

  • English courses

  • Small teams without PMs, no procedures, and no other corporate 'goodies' we all love

  • Best tools you need to make your work pleasurable and effective: monitor(s), workstation of your choice

  • Dev-friendly environment with passionate and skilled people who believe in clean code and software craftsmanship - you will have a chance to meet some of them during the recruitment process

  • Interesting projects with technologies like Rust, Cassandra, MongoDB, Apache Kafka

Job requirements

Must have

  • Strong Rust skills and general programming knowledge (ownership, lifetimes, async/await).

  • Ability to write clean, testable, and idiomatic Rust code (e.g., leveraging Result/Option, macros, traits).

  • At least 2 years of commercial experience with Rust in production environments.

  • Understanding of software architecture patterns (monoliths, microservices, REST/gRPC APIs).

  • Ability to design with scalability, performance, and maintainability in mind (e.g., concurrency, memory management).

  • Familiarity with industry trends in Rust ecosystems (e.g., WebAssembly, blockchain, real-time systems).

  • Experience in leading small or medium sized teams

  • Fluent English (spoken/written) – you’ll collaborate with global clients (USA, Europe, etc.).

  • Polish language proficiency – we’re a Polish team internally.

Nice to have

  • Experience with Rust web frameworks (e.g., Axum, Rocket, Actix Web) and async runtimes (e.g., Tokio).

  • Knowledge of a complementary language (e.g.,C/C++) for polyglot projects.

  • Engagement in tech communities: Contributing to open-source Rust crates, speaking at meetups, writing technical blogs, or mentoring.

  • Rust-based side projects (e.g., CLI tools, API services, or contributions to crates.io libraries).

  • Interest in emerging domains like blockchain, IoT, real-time data processing, or WebAssembly.

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