Rust Team Lead

Overview

About the role

As Rust Team Lead at Swarms, you will lead the development of swarms-rs (github.com/The-Swarm-Corporation/swarms-rs), our high-performance multi-agent framework written in Rust, and manage the Rust team behind it. You will set the technical direction of the framework, own its roadmap and releases, and grow a team of world-class Rust engineers building the fastest agent runtime in the ecosystem. Note: all developer roles require 3 PRs or 3 new issues on the swarms GitHub before applying.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

• Lead the design, development, and releases of the swarms-rs framework
• Manage and mentor the Rust team, and recruit engineers to grow it
• Set the technical direction and roadmap for Rust across the Swarms ecosystem
• Review contributions and maintain the quality bar for the open-source codebase
• Collaborate with the Python framework, Cloud, and research teams to keep swarms-rs at feature parity and beyond

Requirements

You may be a fit if

• You have expert-level Rust skills and have shipped production Rust systems
• You have led or managed an engineering team, or mentored engineers as a senior contributor
• You have maintained or contributed heavily to open-source projects
• You understand multi-agent systems, concurrency, and high-performance runtimes
• You want to own a framework end to end and build the team around it
• You have contributed 3 PRs or opened 3 new issues on the swarms GitHub (github.com/kyegomez/swarms)

Developer Positions

Who we're looking for

Every developer role at Swarms starts with your open source work. Before you apply, we look for:

• 3 PRs or 3 new issues on the swarms GitHub
• Over 1,000 open source commits on open source projects
• Has worked on agent projects before