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You will be responsible for architecting and building high-performance compute engines, translating complex business logic into lightning-fast, memory-safe Rust services.\nIf you are a builder who believes that \"if it's worth doing twice, it's worth automating,\" and you have a deep appreciation for the elegance of the Rust borrow checker, we want to talk to you.\n\nWhat You'll Do\nBuild the Core: Develop and maintain mission-critical business logic using Rust and the Tokio runtime, deployed primarily via high-performance Lambda functions.\nArchitect Infrastructure: Take full ownership of your stack using Terraform. You'll provision and manage everything from DynamoDB schemas to API Gateways and event-driven pipelines.\nOptimize & Profile: This isn't just \"functional\" code. You will profile memory usage and execution timing to shave off milliseconds and minimize compute overhead.\nDefine the Interface: Design and implement robust REST APIs that serve as the bridge between our complex backend logic and the frontend.\nCultivate Excellence: Set the bar for Rust within the team. You'll establish coding standards, mentor others, and conduct rigorous code reviews to ensure our \"brain\" remains healthy and scalable.\nTechnical Profile\nRust Mastery: You have deep experience with ownership, lifetimes, and asynchronous programming in Rust. You know your way around the ecosystem (Serde, Axum/Tower, etc.).\nServerless Native: You understand the nuances of event-driven architecture. You know how to work within (and around) the constraints of serverless environments.\nAutomation First: You have a \"script-first\" mentality. 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