# Rust Architect / Backend Developer

- Platform: Micro1
- Pay: pay not listed
- Location: Remote, Worldwide
- Contract: contract
- Fields: Software Engineering & Coding
- Last verified open: 2026-10-26
- Listing on SOJI (apply here): https://hiring.sojistudio.com/jobs/rust-architect-backend-developer

Rust Architect / Backend Developer solves and validates production Rust backend problems for AI training. Remote worldwide, $50-$70/hr, about 15 hrs/week.

## About the Role
Micro1 needs a highly skilled Rust architect and backend developer for an AI-training project covering production Rust, backend architecture, async and concurrent systems, service design, infrastructure and debugging. You judge whether backend systems are correct, reliable, maintainable and production ready.

## What You'll Do
- Solve and validate Rust backend problems involving service behavior, APIs, persistence, concurrency, performance and reliability
- Turn functional requirements, performance targets and failure-handling expectations into reproducible implementation and test workflows
- Prepare Rust crate workspaces, configuration, test fixtures, dependency services, databases and containerized environments

## Requirements
- Strong knowledge of Rust, backend service design, APIs, data systems and concurrency
- Practical Rust proficiency in substantial professional, research or open-source work
- Clear ownership of Rust architecture
- Experience analyzing backend correctness, performance, scalability and reliability

## Compensation & Logistics
The listing text states $50-$70/hour (the structured rate field is empty). Contractor, about 15 hours per week, flexible schedule including weekends as long as you stay active. Compensation is output-based: paid per task meeting specifications, with a minimum number of tasks per week. Fully remote, global. Process: screening questions, a roughly 30-minute AI interview, then hiring manager review.

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