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Rust Software Engineering Lead

BehavioSec

BehavioSec

Software Engineering
North Sydney NSW 2060, Australia
Posted on Jun 6, 2025

About the Business:

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is the essential partner in the assessment of risk. Within our Business Services vertical, we offer a multitude of solutions focused on helping businesses of all sizes drive higher revenue growth, maximize operational efficiencies, and improve customer experience. Our solutions help our customers solve difficult problems in the areas of Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorist Financing, Identity Authentication & Verification, Fraud and Credit Risk mitigation and Customer Data Management. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, https://risk.lexisnexis.com

About our Team:

IDVerse is a Sydney-based start-up that is a global pioneer in the development of digital identity

verification technology. We've built everything from the ground up and have a broad range of blue-chip customers across banking, telecommunications, government and more. We've perfected the technology locally in Australia and New Zealand and are quickly expanding into the northern hemisphere.

Join a strong team of passionate engineers and build a world-class platform to fight identity fraud at a global scale.

About the Role:

The Rust Software Engineering Lead focuses on developing robust, well-documented, and tested web and API-based applications, primarily using Rust. You'll collaborate closely with the SVP of Architecture, engineers, and product team to build internal libraries and contribute to greenfield projects. The front-end stack involves Rust (Leptos for WASM) and Tailwind CSS, with a strong emphasis on event-based architectures and AWS serverless technologies.

Please ensure that your resume is kept between 1-2 and a max of 3 pages.

Responsibilities:

  • You will work in close collaboration with our SVP of Architecture, our engineering team and our product team to:
  • Write and re-write hardened, documented, and tested web and API-based applications
  • Build our growing collection of libraries
  • Define and enforce best practices of an expanding Rust team
  • Green-field work; front-end applications are written in Rust, using Leptos for WASM and Tailwind for CSS.
  • Preference on event-based architectures, cloud (AWS) and serverless.

Requirements:

  • Technical competence is critical
  • Passion for communication and collaboration across the business.
  • Solid experience creating and maintaining web based and API-based applications ideally in Rust.
  • Demonstrate having built non-trivial Rust projects, ideally web-related
  • Comfortable with Javascript/Typescript
  • Ability to communicate clearly, both in written and verbal, and collaborate effectively with a remote team
  • Strong documentation skills and the mindset of an untested code is a broken code
  • Autonomous, dependable, responsible, and committed.
  • Building front-end Web Assembly applications with a strong preference on Leptos
  • Machine learning problem solving experience
  • Developed for/with AWS Serverless technologies (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB...).
  • Deep understanding of data structures and time complexity analysis of algorithms.
  • Extensive experience building high-scale, concurrent systems and measuring throughout.

Working for you

  • We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
  • Discounted Health plan rate and Optical Assistance
  • Life assurance and income protection
  • Option to buy additional Annual Leave days
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Benefits for you and your family
  • Access to learning and development resources

Your recruiter will advise you on the full benefits package for your location

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