Lead Rust Developer

Who We Are

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 & 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.

About WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit .

The opportunity:

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.

What you’ll be doing:

Leading a new project focused on leveraging Rust for high-performance data processing.

Creating new features and improving the robustness, performance and resilience of the existing Rust codebase

Solving complex business problems by designing and implementing robust code and cutting edge optimisation algorithms.

Collaborating with our internal project owners and our customers to design and develop services that meet their needs.

Building and managing scalable cloud software solutions with full IaC in a GCP container environment

Working with cutting-edge technologies in the machine learning, optimisation and AI spaces.

What we want from you:

Experienced Software Developer

Proven commercial experience developing with Rust.

Strong proficiency in large scale data handling and data transformation.

Solid understanding of distributed systems, scaling and resilience

Experience building and managing containerised solutions on one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

A self-starter mentality with exceptional problem-solving skills.

Familiarity with technologies such as TDD, BDD, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform.

LIFE AT SATALIA

As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the hardest problems in industry.  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.

Our ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future.  Today this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust.

At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity.  We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment.

WPP (VML Enterprise Solutions) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

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