Rust Backend Architect - AI Training Projects

• Rust Backend Architect to contribute to an AI training project focused on production-grade Rust development, backend architecture, and complex systems engineering.
• The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on Rust programming skills with proven experience designing, debugging, and evaluating reliable backend systems.

About Gramian Consulting Group

Gramian Consulting Group · India (Remote) · Contract · Posted 2026-10-26

Gramian Consultancy is a boutique consultancy specializing in IT professional services and engineering talent solutions. With a strong background in software engineering and leadership, we help companies build high-performing teams by matching them with professionals who truly fit their needs.

Responsibilities

• You will solve and validate technical problems involving APIs, persistence, asynchronous processing, concurrency, performance, and service reliability.
• You will also build reproducible implementation and testing environments, assess architectural decisions, and ensure backend solutions meet production-quality standards.
• Solve and validate Rust backend engineering problems involving APIs, service behavior, data persistence, concurrency, performance, and reliability.
• Translate functional requirements, performance targets, and failure-handling expectations into reproducible implementation and testing workflows.
• Design, review, and assess backend architectures for correctness, scalability, maintainability, and production readiness.
• Prepare Rust crate workspaces, configuration files, test fixtures, dependency services, databases, and containerized development environments.
• Develop and validate test cases that assess expected behavior, edge cases, failure scenarios, and system reliability.
• Debug complex backend issues and identify weaknesses in implementation, architecture, or system design.
• Evaluate asynchronous and concurrent systems, including potential race conditions, resource contention, and performance bottlenecks.
• Produce clear technical explanations and implementation artifacts that meet project specifications and support AI training and evaluation.
• Maintain consistent output quality while meeting weekly submission requirements and project deadlines.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on proficiency in Rust, demonstrated through substantial professional, research, or open-source software development.
• Strong understanding of backend service design, APIs, data persistence, and production software architecture.
• Practical knowledge of asynchronous programming, concurrency, error handling, and performance optimization in Rust.
• Experience analyzing and resolving complex backend correctness, scalability, reliability, or performance problems.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into working implementations, reproducible tests, and verifiable outcomes.
• Experience with Rust workspaces, dependency management, test environments, and backend development tooling.
• Strong debugging, analytical reasoning, and technical problem-solving skills.
• Clear written communication and the ability to explain architectural decisions and technical findings.
• Availability to contribute approximately 15 hours per week and meet the project's minimum weekly task requirements.
• Ability to begin work within 24–48 hours after completing onboarding.

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