Who We Are:
At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.
Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.
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.
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.
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.
