About Vortex Group We’re a boutique tech company that delivers tailored digital solutions —from innovative e-commerce to enterprise-grade AI experiences—using a modern stack of Rust, React, .NET Core and cloud-native services. Our mission is simple: technology that empowers. Innovation, collaboration and excellence are baked into everything we ship.
The Role
We’re looking for a Rust Developer who lives and breathes performance-critical back-end code. You’ll craft micro-services on Rocket 0.5, wield async/await with Tokio, and help us squeeze every nanosecond out of our data pipeline.
What you’ll do
Design, build and maintain REST/WebSocket APIs in Rust (Rocket)
Extend our high-throughput analytics engine and storage layer (columnar & binary formats)
Profile, benchmark and tune code paths with flamegraphs, Criterion and CodSpeed
Implement CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions -
Docker -
Kubernetes/Nix)
Collaborate with front-end, DevOps and AI teams to ship end-to-end features
Document architecture decisions; mentor peers in idiomatic Rust
Must-have skills
~1 + yrs professional Rust or 3 + yrs C/C++ with serious Rust side projects
~ Solid grasp of async runtimes (Tokio/async-std) & ownership / lifetimes
~ Experience with a Rust web framework (Rocket, Actix, Axum etc.)
~ SQL or columnar data stores (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Parquet/Arrow)
~ Linux, Git, and CI best practices
Nice-to-have
Knowledge of Vortex’s open-source columnar format or Apache Arrow/DataFusion
WebAssembly, Nix flakes, or eBPF flame-profiling
Cloud infra on AWS or Azure
Why Vortex
~ Impact from Day 1 — small team, big ownership
~ Competitive salary € 70 k – 110 k + stock options
~ Remote-first culture, flexible hours, 4-day Deep-Work Sprint every month
~“Upstream Fridays” — contribute to Rust OSS on company time
~ Annual learning budget + conference travel (RustConf, EuroRust, etc.)
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