Rust Lead Senior Developer (Remote)

Location: Remote Type: Contractor (Full-time) Compensation: Base salary per month + Quarterly Profit Sharing ++ Reports to: CTO / Co-Founder 🌏 About anyIP anyIP.io is a fast-growing proxy provider trusted by scrapers, growth teams, and data-driven businesses. We offer affordable, high-quality residential and mobile proxies in 40+ countries, with transparent pricing and no hidden fees. Built by engineers, loved by power users. 🔥 About this Role We’re looking for a Rust Lead Senior Developer to become the technical owner of our Proxy service. You’ll join a seven-person engineering team, refine a high-throughput codebase, and lay the groundwork for features that power tens of millions of proxy requests per day. If you thrive on autonomy, love clean architecture, and want a chance to grow into a team-lead role, this seat is for you. We’re not looking to micromanage you. We expect you to take full ownership of our Rust codebase (50,000 lines) and ensure it remains future-proof. If this sounds like you, we’re excited to get in touch. 🧩 Must Have Lead development with Rust, Tokio (the codebase is 100% Async), Hyper, RabbitMQ, Redis, Prometheus, and MongoDB 5+ years of professional Rust experience with Mastery of Tokio Async framework Challenges involving millions of requests/events per hour Solid comprehension of TCP, UDP and multiplexers Strong knowledge of protocol design, including Protobuf, Bincode, and raw Strong performance-tuning skills—profiling, memory optimization, low-latency design Solid security mindset Capable of designing highly concurrent softwares with High Availability. Implement bullet-proof security ( Anti-DDoS system , TLS, cryptography, etc.) and enforce best practices Conduct thorough code reviews ✅ Preferred 5+ years of professional Rust experience with Mastery of Tokio Async framework Hands-on expertise with RabbitMQ (routing, retries, dead-lettering) and async patterns Knowledge of SOCKS5 & PROXY protocols would be a big plus Working knowledge of MongoDB is preferred Comfortable owning projects end-to-end: scoping, delivery, monitoring, iteration Help shape engineering culture and, as we scale, play a key role in hiring & leading Rust talents Mentor mid-/junior devs Ability to overlap with Asia–Europe time zones and communicate clearly in English ✨ Why Join anyIP? We’re scaling fast—join now and you’ll shape the foundation. In return, you get genuine ownership, full autonomy, and a clear path to senior leadership. Perks & Benefits 20 days paid annual leave 5 days paid sick leave per year USD 800 yearly allowance for gear, books, or courses Quarterly profit-sharing bonus tied to long-term impact ⏱️ Recruitment Process Tell us about yourself – short online application Intro call – 30-min fit discussion Take-home coding challenge – show us how you think Founder interviews – 1–3 rounds with leadership & peers Offer – we move fast when it’s a match Ready to own a mission-critical backend and build the proxy platform developers love? Apply now and let’s ship something great together.