Backend Engineer, Senior (Rust)
Affinidi is seeking a solution-oriented Senior Backend Engineer with demonstrable experience in Rust to guide the development of secure, scalable, and high-performance backend systems for the Affinidi Elements platform. In this role, you will collaborate with global peers across product, design, infrastructure, architecture, and engineering teams to deliver a multi-component platform, leveraging your expertise in designing and developing production-quality systems. This position offers the opportunity for professional growth within a high-performing team culture.
Key responsibilities include building and delivering secure, high-quality features and improvements for the Affinidi Elements Platform using Rust. You will contribute to architectural direction while remaining hands-on with development, design and implement solutions to complex, large-scale technical challenges, and identify and drive critical improvements in product quality, security, and performance. Additionally, you will elevate engineering standards through mentorship and commitment to best practices, guide the team to build well-tested, secure, and performant services, and collaborate closely with product, security, and engineering peers in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience with performance optimization and a track record of diagnosing and preventing system bottlenecks. Strong backend development skills with Rust as a core expertise are essential, along with deep knowledge of TypeScript/Node.js; Dart experience is strongly preferred. Expertise in cloud computing (AWS) and cloud-native environments, a proven track record in developing distributed systems using modern design patterns, and strong advocacy for privacy by design, security-first principles, and high-performance systems are also required. Experience with applying asynchronous cryptography in production-grade products and authorization/authentication domains is a strong plus. Comfort in autonomous, fast-moving startup environments and collaboration across global teams is important.
Affinidi offers a hybrid working model with flexible working hours and an unlimited vacation policy. The compensation package is competitive, and employees have access to a learning budget, mobile allowance, home office allowance, and urban sport membership. The company fosters an international environment that encourages professional growth and development.
Affinidi is dedicated to changing data ownership for good, empowering businesses and individuals with control and ownership of their data. The company values a customer-focused approach, investment in high-performance cultures and teams, embracing experimentation, and collaboration to unlock data. Affinidi's commitment to the open-source community and collaboration with standards bodies to develop the Internet of Trust guides every engineering and product decision.