Career switch- top things to do get ready

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hi. i have a 4+ years of experience in gameplay programming using C++ and unreal engine.

but unfortunately i had to switch from game industry coz of how bad the market is.
and i was applying for adjacent jobs and landed an interview with rust. i learnt rust for a few days and i cleared 90% of the interview.
the JD is highly available, low latency airline ticket booking system using rust.
what kind of tech and framework should i be familiar with so that the job can become easier or familiar to work with?

i also worked as a web dev initially- lost the touch but i know the basics.

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Nicely done.
Learn Tokio (the async framework), and depending on the maturity of the project (if they didn't choose their executor yet) learn about compio or monoio.

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should i care about parallelism now?

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No. In distributed systems you'll hardly ever need to parallelize workloads.

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okay.is it essentially like developing a nodejs application server except the language is rust?

and what kind of sample projects i can do that is similar to the JD. i have a few days before the job and i can use that time to warm up.

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Yeah, exactly. You'll hardly ever need to scale vertically.

Create yourself a toy project for a booking system, where you hold the lock for a seating place for a given time (i.e. 1 minute).

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cool. that's an interesting problem to solve

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Ask your future project lead about the architecture and technologies used in your future work.

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the current recruiter doesn't know much about it.

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That's why you should ask the future project lead and not the recruiter.

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