Get Rust Developers
Systems engineers who work in Rust for performance-critical services, WebAssembly, or memory-safe systems programming. Rust expertise is rare anywhere. LATAM has a small but capable community.
Senior Rust developers in LATAM cost $70-100k vs $180k+ in the US. Rust expertise commands a premium everywhere, but LATAM provides a meaningful discount.
CS-trained developers who understand memory management and type theory adapt well to Rust's ownership model. LATAM's academic CS programs create that foundation.
LATAM's growing WebAssembly and systems programming community is producing Rust developers who work in production environments, not just toy projects.
Compatible with US East and West Coast teams. Rust work tends to be focused and async-friendly, which suits the timezone difference well.
LATAM Rust developers often come from C++ or high-performance computing backgrounds, bringing pre-existing systems programming context.
Every candidate completes all five stages before you see their profile. You can also run your own technical round after our screening.
A timed test measuring analytical thinking, pattern recognition, and problem-solving clarity, independent of specific programming language knowledge.
A structured interview assessing communication style, conflict resolution, ownership mindset, and English proficiency in a professional context.
A 90-minute session covering Rust's ownership model at a deep level. Candidates explain lifetime annotations in complex scenarios, demonstrate understanding of the borrow checker's rules, and discuss when to use Arc<Mutex<T>> vs message-passing channels for shared state. We work through an async Tokio service implementation with proper error handling using thiserror and ? propagation. Candidates also review a code sample with subtle unsafe usage and explain what invariants it requires to be correct.
Verification of work history, education, and identity with written consent, aligned with applicable privacy rules including LGPD where relevant.
We speak with at least two professional references who worked with the candidate in an engineering context, not personal contacts.
After our screening, you can optionally run your own technical round before making an offer.
Sample profiles
Anonymized profiles from our vetted talent pool. Actual candidates may vary.
São Paulo, Brazil
4+ years experience
Buenos Aires, Argentina
3+ years experience
Campinas, Brazil
6+ years experience
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Rust developers who can get code to compile but don't understand why are a liability. Ours understand the ownership model and can explain their design decisions in terms of safety guarantees. They write Rust that's idiomatic, not Rust that looks like C++ or Java with different syntax.
GitHub Copilot for Rust boilerplate: derive macros, impl blocks, and trait implementations. They validate generated lifetime annotations carefully.
AI-assisted generation of comprehensive property-based tests with proptest, improving coverage of edge cases.
They use cargo-deny to audit dependencies for security vulnerabilities. Supply chain safety is a first-class concern.
They communicate the cost of Rust clearly to non-Rust stakeholders. They know when Rust is the right tool and when Go or Python would serve better.
They write documentation as part of the API surface. Rustdoc examples compile and run as tests.
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Rust 2024 edition
wasm-bindgen / wasm-pack
SQLx (async PostgreSQL)
deadpool-redis
cargo test