About Us
Founded in 2002 in Sydney, with offices in India and a presence across the Americas and Europe, Prospecta is a leading data management software company. Our flagship platform, Master Data Online (MDO), enables accurate, compliant, and relevant master data for asset-intensive industries including Energy, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Infrastructure, and Manufacturing. We pride ourselves on agility, collaboration, and innovation delivering real value to customers while fostering a diverse, growth-driven culture that encourages learning, embraces challenges, and celebrates success.
About the Job
Position: Senior Development Engineer
Location: Sydney, Australia
Role Summary: We are looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to build high-performance, scalable backend systems for Prospecta’s next-generation data infrastructure platform. This role requires strong expertise in production-grade Rust, async programming, and systems-level problem solving, along with the ability to independently drive complex technical solutions in a fast-paced engineering environment.
Must Have
- 5+ years of software engineering experience in Java and at least 2+ years of hands-on production Rust development.
- Strong expertise in asynchronous Rust programming using Tokio or similar frameworks.
- Deep understanding of Rust memory ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, allocations, and buffer management.
- Experience building and shipping production-grade distributed or high-performance backend systems.
- Strong understanding of concurrency, backpressure handling, cancellation, streams, and async execution models.
- Ability to independently solve technically ambiguous problems and deliver working solutions.
- Experience designing APIs, libraries, or reusable engineering frameworks.
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Good to Have
- Experience with high-throughput data processing systems or streaming architectures.
- Familiarity with columnar data formats or large structured datasets.
- Experience with gRPC in Rust.
- Exposure to cloud platforms and data lakes storage services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Understanding of query optimization concepts such as partitioning or predicate pushdown.
- Experience working in enterprise SaaS or B2B product environments.
- Exposure to data governance, data quality, or rules-engine platforms.
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and distributed systems architecture.
- Prior experience mentoring engineers or contributing to technical leadership initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Systems & Software Engineering
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Rust/Java.
- Build scalable and reliable asynchronous systems using concurrency patterns.
- Optimize system throughput, latency, memory usage, and I/O performance for large-scale data processing workloads.
- Develop robust APIs, internal libraries, and reusable engineering components.
- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decision-making.
Performance & Reliability
- Analyze and improve memory allocation patterns, buffer ownership, and serialization performance.
- Implement efficient processing strategies for streaming and large structured datasets.
- Ensure code quality, maintainability, and production readiness through testing, debugging, and code reviews.
- Identify bottlenecks proactively and recommend scalable engineering solutions.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver solutions aligned with business goals.
- Operate effectively in technically ambiguous environments and independently drive implementation approaches.
- Contribute to engineering best practices, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Collaborate with distributed global teams while ensuring effective communication and delivery alignment.
Growth Path
At Prospecta, your career journey is one of growth and opportunity. Here, depending on your career journey you can either kickstart your career or accelerate your professional development in a dynamic environment. Your success is our priority, and as you demonstrate your abilities and achieve results, you'll have the chance to advance into the leadership roles.
Benefits
- Competitive salary;
- Generous paid time off;
- Flexible hybrid working model;
- Ongoing learning & career development;
- Annual company events and workshops.
