Lead Rust Developer

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Who We Are</strong></h3> <p>VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement &amp; Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.</p> <p><strong>About WPP</strong></p> <p>WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite&nbsp;cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel&nbsp;in a single company –&nbsp;powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open,&nbsp;to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit&nbsp;<u><a href="http://wpp.com/" data-outlook-id="2714312b-312f-4651-9f88-d8a4e47547bc">WPP.com</a></u>.</p></div><h3>The opportunity:</h3> <p>This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dynamic, global team at Satalia, where you will play a pivotal role in solving complex problems using AI-enhanced data sets. We are seeking a high-performing Rust Engineer to help lead our brand-new Rust project. If you have a passion for Rust's speed and safety and enjoy the challenge of refactoring and building high-performance solutions, this role will allow you to make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment. You will be instrumental in shipping working Rust software regularly and shaping the future of our AI-centric products.</p> <h3>What you’ll be doing:</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Leading a new project focused on leveraging Rust for high-performance data processing.</p> <p>Creating new features and improving the robustness, performance and resilience of the existing Rust codebase</p> <p>Solving complex business problems by designing and implementing robust code and cutting edge optimisation algorithms.</p> <p>Collaborating with our internal project owners and our customers to design and develop services that meet their needs.</p> <p>Building and managing scalable cloud software solutions with full IaC in a GCP container environment</p> <p>Working with cutting-edge technologies in the machine learning, optimisation and AI spaces.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>What we want from you:</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Experienced Software Developer</p> <p>Proven commercial experience developing with Rust.</p> <p>Strong proficiency in large scale data handling and data transformation.</p> <p>Solid understanding of distributed systems, scaling and resilience</p> <p>Experience building and managing containerised solutions on one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).</p> <p>A self-starter mentality with exceptional problem-solving skills.</p> <p>Familiarity with technologies such as TDD, BDD, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> <p><strong>LIFE AT SATALIA</strong></p> <p>As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the hardest problems in industry.&nbsp; Satalia is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and interesting projects that will challenge, and allow you to develop new skills, lead and contribute to the overall community.</p> <p>Our ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future.&nbsp; Today this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust.</p> <p>At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity.&nbsp; We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment.</p> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>&nbsp;</h2> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB">WPP (VML Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. 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