Full‑Stack Rust Software Engineer - Allocation & Disruption Optimisation
Location: Remote (UK) | Employment: Full‑time | Compensation: £80k - £120k + equity
Join a venture‑backed startup re‑imagining how airlines and airports run.
We're recruting for an exciting tech company building a unified operations platform that helps front‑line agents, planners, and engineers keep flights on time, handle disruptions in real time, and deliver a seamless passenger experience. As an early team member, you'll own end‑to‑end delivery-shaping architecture, shipping production code, and seeing your work used by operators across the world.
What you'll do
1. Build robust back‑end services in Rust using gRPC and Postgres.
2. Design and evolve a real‑time optimiser for allocation & disruption use cases (think: resources, schedules, constraints).
3. Model complex operational rules and encode them into scalable optimisation logic.
4. Ensure reliability and observability across services (metrics, tracing, alerting, SLOs).
5. Design flexible, future‑proof data models for a diverse and intricate industry domain.
6. Contribute to the front end when needed (Flutter/Dart; occasional React/TypeScript).
Must‑have skills
7. Rust: 3 years+ commerical develpment experience
8. Modelling / Optimisation: Hands‑on experience modelling systems and solving optimisation problems.
9. Rust: Comfortable reading and writing idiomatic Rust.
10. Relational Databases & SQL: Proficient with Postgres (schema design, performance).
11. Independent Delivery: Capable of owning features end‑to‑end with minimal oversight.
12. Problem‑Solving Mindset: Thrive in fast‑moving startup environments.
Nice‑to‑have extras
13. Aviation domain knowledge (airline or airport operations).
14. Back‑end engineering experience in modern, service‑oriented systems.
15. Flutter/Dart and/or React/TypeScript exposure.
16. gRPC/Protobuf (unary & streaming).
17. Apache Arrow/Parquet for high‑performance data workflows.
18. Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch.
19. CI/CD & containerisation: GitHub Actions, Docker (or similar).
Why this role
20. High impact: Every release helps real teams keep operations running and passengers moving.
21. High autonomy: Own features end‑to‑end and shape architecture from the ground up.
22. Meaningful upside: Competitive salary plus equity as we scale.
23. Remote‑first culture: Work anywhere in the UK with flexible hours and a supportive, high‑trust team.
Sound like you?
Send your CV or LinkedIn profile and a short note about relevant optimisation work or Rust projects. Links to GitHub, papers, or talks are very welcome.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.