Senior Software Engineer (Rust Developer)

Lingopal

Chicago, Illinois, United States permanent

Posted: December 19, 2025

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Job Description

At Lingopal.ai, you’ll join a mission-driven team that’s redefining how the world communicates. We build AI that empowers individuals and teams to bridge language barriers effortlessly. In this role, you’ll contribute to products used globally and help shape the next generation of communication technology.

• Strong systems design, debugging, and performance optimization skills

• Experience building distributed systems or high-performance backend services

• Bonus: Deep understanding of streaming protocols (SRT, RTMP, HLS, WebRTC) and codecs (AAC, H.264, etc.)

• Proven experience building media pipelines with GStreamer

What You Bring (Requirements):

• Experience: 7+ years of professional software development experience

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, drive consensus on architectural decisions, and mentor junior/mid-level engineers

• Python Expertise: You have deep, production-level experience with Python & Rust and their concurrency models (tokio, threading, multiprocessing)

• System Design: Proven track record of designing and building scalable, distributed services in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Containerization: Proficiency with Docker and container orchestration concepts

• Startup DNA: You thrive in fast-paced environments, possess a high sense of ownership, and are comfortable navigating ambiguity

Bonus Points (Desired Skills):

• Systems Programming: Experience with Rust for performance-critical components

• AI/ML Integration: Experience using and deploying ML models in production

• Video Engineering: Familiarity with GStreamer, FFmpeg, or WebRTC protocols

• Audio Signal Processing: Professional experience with low-latency audio processing algorithms and/or a strong intuition for sound quality (e.g., being an audiophile or musician is a plus)

• Orchestration: Hands-on experience with production Kubernetes clusters

• Observability: Experience with monitoring and alerting stacks like Prometheus and Grafana

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