Rust Backend Engineer at SnappyCX

Snappycx is a leading company specializing in omnichannel customer support, committed to delivering top-quality customer experiences at affordable prices. With a team of passionate professionals dedicated to your product and brand, we utilize advanced metrics and tools to ensure maximum efficiency throughout the customer support journey.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Rust Backend Engineer

Location: Ibadan, Oyo
Job type: Full-time (Hybrid)

Description

• We have made a deliberate choice to build our entire backend in Rust. We believe reliability, memory safety, and raw performance are not just features; they are our foundation. We are building a system that will be blazing fast, handle massive concurrency, and will not crash.
• This is a rare opportunity to be one of our first two engineers, architecting the entire backend from the ground up as part of a pure Rust stack (a Rust backend with a Rust-based Tauri desktop client).

What You'll Be Doing

• Build the Core API: You will architect, build, and maintain our high-performance, memory-safe API using Rust.
• Handle High Concurrency: This is the core of the job. You will use async/await and a modern framework (like axum, actix-web, or tokio) to handle thousands of simultaneous connections from our desktop clients flawlessly.
• Embrace "Fearless Concurrency": You will write code that is free from data races and safe by default, ensuring our users' time data is always processed with perfect integrity.
• Own the Database: You will design our PostgreSQL database schema and use a Rust-native library (like sqlx or sea-orm) to write efficient, type-safe queries.
• Manage Authentication & Billing: You'll build the secure systems for user authentication and integrate with payment processors like Stripe.
• Collaborate & Define: You will work directly with the founder and our frontend (Svelte/Tauri) engineer to define API contracts and shape the product's technical roadmap.

We're Looking for Someone Who

• Loves Rust: You have professional or significant personal project experience in Rust. You can show us code you've written and are proud of.
• Understands Rust's Core: You are comfortable with Rust's key concepts: ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and traits.
• Is an async Expert: You have experience building asynchronous applications in Rust, ideally with tokio.
• Is a Backend Generalist: You are a product-minded engineer who can take an idea, architect a solution, and build it, from the database to the API endpoint.
• Cares About Reliability: You're the kind of person who believes in the compiler and thinks that a bug is a failure of the type system, not just a mistake.

Bonus Points (We'll Be Really Excited If You):

• Have contributed to open-source Rust projects or crates.
• Have strong experience with axum, sqlx, or sea-orm.
• You embrace AI tools such as Claude Code + Cursor.
• Have tinkered with Tauri and can collaborate with our frontend engineer on the Rust side of the desktop app.
• Have experience building and scaling high-concurrency, real-time systems.
• Have a strong opinion on Rust's web framework ecosystem.

Why You'll Love Working With Us

• Use Rust. Every. Single. Day. This is not a side project. This is a 100% Rust-first company.
• Build a "Pure Rust" Stack: You'll be working on a Rust backend that communicates with a Rust-based Tauri desktop client. It's the stack you've been dreaming of.
• Build From Scratch: No legacy code, no C++ bindings (unless you want to), no technical debt. You will build it right from day one.
• Solve a Hard, Rewarding Problem: High-concurrency is a perfect problem domain for Rust. You will get to use the language to its full potential.
• Massive Impact: You are not a cog in a machine. As a founding engineer, your work will define the technical foundation of the company for the next 10 years.
• Flexible & Focused Team: We're a small, hybrid team based in Ibadan. No bureaucracy, no pointless meetings. Just building.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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