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 WPP.com. 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.