RUST Developer Lead - Jersey City, NJ

As a RUST Developer Lead, your primary responsibilities will include building out the Rust ecosystem, developing new features for our cloud-based services, and mentoring junior engineers. You’ll be translating business needs into technology solutions and improving applications that support financial operations. Your hands-on coding experience will help set the technical direction of projects while ensuring high standards in software engineering.

The RUST Developer Lead position requires a BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, along with a minimum of five years of IT experience, particularly with RUST. Experience in financial technologies, agile methodologies, and cloud services like AWS are also highly desirable. Candidates should be proficient in Linux and have hands-on experience in performance tuning and software development.

This role uniquely blends hands-on development with leadership responsibilities. As a RUST Developer Lead, you’ll not only be writing code but also nurturing the next generation of engineers. You'll have the opportunity to work on impactful projects within a vibrant team and utilize modern software development practices to solve real-world financial challenges.

Performance expectations for a RUST Developer Lead include successfully delivering high-quality software products, mentoring junior team members, and maintaining effective communication with stakeholders. You'll be expected to implement best practices in Agile, lead projects through CI/CD, and continually seek ways to optimize application performance.

As a RUST Developer Lead in Jersey City, you can expect a robust benefits package, including medical, vision, and dental coverage, a 401k retirement plan, and opportunities for paid time off and holidays. Compensation ranges from $56,000 to $196,000, reflecting the experience and qualifications of the candidate, ensuring you’re rewarded for your contributions.

When answering this question, detail specific projects where you utilized RUST, highlighting your thought process behind design decisions and the outcomes. Discuss how you addressed scalability and security in those projects, as well as any mentoring roles you played for less experienced developers.

Discuss various performance tuning techniques you've utilized, including profiling tools for RUST, effective use of CI/CD pipelines, and adopting Agile methodologies. Illustrate how these strategies have led to tangible improvements in your past projects.

Share your approach to time management and prioritization. Explain how you integrate mentoring into your daily routine through code reviews, pairing sessions, or regular check-ins, ensuring that both your and your team’s objectives are met.

Provide a concrete example from your experience where you clearly identified a business challenge, collaborated with stakeholders to gather requirements, and subsequently designed an effective solution using RUST or relevant technologies. Highlight the impact of your solution.

Discuss specific Agile methodologies you've used, such as Scrum or Kanban, and how you adapted these to fit your team or project needs. Share metrics or outcomes that demonstrate the effectiveness of these methodologies in improving team productivity and product quality.

Detail your methodology for identifying bottlenecks within applications. Mention profiling tools you've used, the iterative process of testing performance, and any instances of significant improvements you achieved through your optimization efforts.

Outline your hands-on experience with AWS, mentioning specific services you've used in building or deploying applications. Discuss how you leveraged cloud solutions for scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness, along with any challenges you overcame.

Choose a significant technical hurdle from your experience, articulating the context, your approach to problem-solving, and the results. Use this as an opportunity to showcase your analytical skills and adaptability under pressure.

Mention specific resources you rely on, such as online courses, meetups, or conferences. Discuss your enthusiasm for learning new technologies and methodologies, and how you apply new knowledge to current projects.

Illustrate your familiarity with big data technologies such as Snowflake. Explain how understanding data processing impacts the decisions you make as a developer, and how you have integrated big data handling into your projects using RUST.