[Hiring] Senior Rust Software Developer II @Narvar

Role Description

This role involves introducing Rust into the backbone of the system, focusing on correctness, performance, and reliability.

• Design and build high-correctness Rust services that sit on critical platform paths
• Introduce Rust into areas where safety, determinism, and performance are essential
• Own systems from architecture → implementation → rollout → operations
• Make real decisions around concurrency, async boundaries, data integrity, and failure modes
• Work across service boundaries in a polyglot environment (Rust alongside other stacks)
• Collaborate with product, design, and frontend engineers to build systems that are technically sound and product-aware
• Improve reliability, observability, and system behavior through design, not just patching
• Mentor other engineers and raise the bar on system quality and ownership

Qualifications

• Have built and operated distributed systems in production
• Have deep hands-on Rust experience (not just experiments or side projects)
• Understand where Rust shines — and where it doesn’t
• Are comfortable reasoning about concurrency, async systems, and correctness guarantees
• Have experience designing APIs and data contracts that evolve safely over time
• Have worked with relational and/or NoSQL databases at scale
• Have deployed and operated services in AWS or GCP (We are a GCP Shop though!)
• Take initiative naturally and are comfortable operating with ambiguity
• Communicate clearly and make tradeoffs explicit

Requirements

• You’ve worked in startup or high-ownership environments
• You’ve owned systems in production, including on-call responsibility
• You’re comfortable moving across the stack when needed (backend-first, full-stack aware)
• You’ve influenced architecture by earning trust, not by mandate
• You use modern tooling (including AI-assisted workflows) to increase leverage, not outsource thinking

Benefits

• Real scale, real customers, real impacts
• Startup-level ownership with platform-level impact
• Teams that value thinking, judgment, and responsibility
• Low ego, high trust, and room to do your best work

Company Description

We're on a mission to simplify the everyday lives of consumers. Post-purchase is a critical phase of the customer journey. That's why we created Narvar - a platform focused on driving customer loyalty through seamless post-purchase experiences that allow retailers to retain, engage, and delight customers.

• Works with GameStop, Neiman Marcus, Sonos, Nike, and 1300+ other brands
• Hubs in San Francisco, Atlanta, London, and Bangalore
• Served over 125 million consumers worldwide across 10+ billion interactions, 38 countries, and 55 languages
• Equal-opportunity employer valuing diversity