Senior Rust Developer Mini Program Platform Architect

Responsibilities

• Define the Mini Program runtime, lifecycle management, sandboxing and security architecture.
• Develop and manage the developer onboarding process.
• Design and implement API gateway strategies.
• Architect SDKs and SDK architecture.
• Integrate payment systems and identity and authentication mechanisms.
• Create a moderation framework and analytics solutions.
• Establish deployment pipelines and ensure long-term platform scalability.
• Mentor engineering teams and establish technical standards.
• Collaborate with product teams to continually expand platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in senior, lead, principal, or architect-level roles.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale platform architectures, developer ecosystems, or extensible application platforms.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and high-availability infrastructure.
• Extensive experience designing RESTful APIs, RPC frameworks, SDKs, and developer-facing tools.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, identity management, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, API security, and permissions models.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, distributed caching, and high-throughput communication systems.
• Proficiency in Rust is strongly preferred.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, observability, monitoring, and DevOps best practices.
• Experience building secure platforms supporting third-party developers, including application lifecycle management, versioning, sandboxing, and governance.
• Familiarity with payment platforms, digital wallets, financial infrastructure, or commerce platforms is highly desirable.
• Experience designing systems for international markets, including localization, multilingual applications, and large-scale consumer products.
• Excellent system design, architectural documentation, technical leadership, and communication skills.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers, conduct architecture reviews, establish engineering standards, and drive technical strategy across multiple teams.
• Startup experience or experience building products from concept through commercial launch is strongly preferred.
• Passion for building scalable technology platforms capable of supporting hundreds of millions of users.