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Founding Engineer: Backend - Rust+gRPC (US)

Landeed
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 5 May 2025
💰 $220,000/yr($150,000/yr – $220,000/yr)

About the role

Skills: Protobuf, gRPC, Rust, PostgreSQL

Work directly with the CTO. Design and build API endpoints using Rust and gRPC. Collect data from disparate, unstable, and slow government sources. Work on an asynchronous system for analyzing results and using them to seed subsequent searches. Make full use of HTTP2 and state-of-the-art notification systems to send this information to the user as it becomes available. Speak with customers and build something you would want to use.

New responsibilities at this level: - Business Logic: Design new products and their data flows. Organize unary and streamed responses, worker tasks, and notification systems. Communicate with frontend teams ensure successful implementation and launch.

We also dedicate one day a week to writing articles on the interesting problems you have solved at Landeed. You've never really learned something until you've taught it.

Interview Process

Phone screen

We'll ask what technologies you have worked with and what you're looking for in a company.

Technical screen

Before the interview, we'll share an existing Tonic and Diesel repository. The technical screen will be developing an endpoint in this repository. You will be screen-sharing from your computer. You're free to use your own development environment, google any syntax you need, and ask for help. Tonic: https://docs.rs/tonic/latest/tonic/ Diesel: https://docs.rs/diesel/latest/diesel/

CEO intro

The final round is a non-technical conversation with Sanjay Mandava, our CEO.

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