3 hours ago
Remote, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-correctness Rust services on critical platform paths.
- Introduce Rust where safety, determinism, performance, and correctness are essential.
- Own systems across architecture, implementation, rollout, and operations.
- Make decisions about concurrency, asynchronous boundaries, data integrity, and failure modes.
- Work across service boundaries in a polyglot environment.
- Collaborate with product, design, and frontend engineers to build technically sound, product-aware systems.
- Improve reliability, observability, and system behavior through design.
- Mentor engineers and raise standards for system quality and ownership.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on Rust experience beyond experiments or side projects.
- Production experience building and operating distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, asynchronous systems, and correctness guarantees.
- Experience designing APIs and data contracts that evolve safely over time.
- Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases at scale.
- Experience deploying and operating services in AWS or GCP; Narvar primarily uses GCP.
- Comfort with ambiguity, initiative, clear communication, and making tradeoffs explicit.
- Bonus: experience in startup or high-ownership environments, production ownership including on-call responsibility, cross-stack work, architecture influence, and modern AI-assisted tooling.
Benefits
- Fully remote role for candidates located in Canada who can work within EST/EDT or PDT/PST hours.
- High ownership and autonomy with platform-level impact.
- Opportunity to shape where Rust is used across a large-scale production platform.
- Collaborative, low-ego, high-trust environment with room for professional growth.
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About Narvar
Narvar builds a SaaS platform that manages retailers’ post-purchase experience—order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges, and store/warehouse logistics—used by ecommerce and D2C brands. The company sells to enterprise and mid-market retailers and integrates with carriers and commerce platforms. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, it is privately held; customers include Sephora, Levi’s, and Sonos.