Senior Developer

Senior Developer

Anywhere

Type: Contract-to-Hire

Category: Delivery Leader

Industry: Manufacturing

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -052026-106844

Date Posted: 05/10/2026

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Our client seeks a Senior Developer to design, build, and maintain backend services in Rust and .NET/C#. The role focuses on event-driven architecture with Kafka, resilient RESTful and background services, and data-intensive processing across PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and Neo4j. The position requires hands-on production experience with distributed systems, event sourcing, CQRS, and robust testing practices.

This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $95.00 to $85.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain backend services in Rust and .NET/C#.

• Develop REST APIs, background services, event consumers, and data processing workers.

• Implement and maintain event-driven services using Kafka, including topic consumption and consumer group management.

• Implement retry, dead-letter handling, and idempotent message processing.

• Validate event schemas and manage event versioning.

• Apply exactly-once or effectively-once processing patterns where appropriate.

• Work with PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and Neo4j based on use case.

• Build projection and read models using event sourcing and CQRS.

• Develop containerized services with unit and integration tests.

Experience Requirements:

• Production experience with Rust and .NET/C#.

• Kafka, event sourcing, CQRS, and projection/read-model development.

• PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, and Neo4j.

• Distributed systems and backend API development.

• Containerized services and automated testing.

• Rust: async Rust, Tokio or similar runtime, error handling patterns, traits and generics, Serde, API or worker development, Kafka client usage, PostgreSQL integration.

• .NET: .NET 8 or later preferred, C#, Minimal APIs or ASP.NET Core, hosted services, dependency injection, EF Core or Dapper, clean architecture, Kafka and PostgreSQL integration.

• Preferred: Dapr, Kubernetes or AKS, Docker, OpenTelemetry, Grafana/Loki/Tempo/Prometheus, EventStoreDB or similar, schema registries, Avro/Protobuf/JSON Schema, replayable projection pipelines, domain-driven design, high-volume data ingestion, experience with manufacturing, ERP, supply chain, finance, or IoT systems.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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