Backend Software Engineer, Rust – AI-first E-commerce Tech

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with AI to plan, manage coding agents, and critically evaluate their outputs.

• Engage directly with business partners to collect requirements, agree on solutions, and develop functional software.

• Make decisions regarding architecture and data models while ensuring systems remain fast and reliable at scale.

• Take responsibility for existing applications and create new solutions tailored for the affiliate business.

• Design and build event-driven backend systems capable of processing substantial amounts of product and campaign data.

• Primarily develop using Rust, with some tasks in Python.

• Manage projects from start to finish while keeping the team and stakeholders updated.

• Contribute to the engineering culture through team tools, processes, and knowledge sharing.

• Discuss achievable goals with the hiring team and showcase an AI-assisted methodology rather than completing a traditional coding test.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in fostering a robust engineering culture, such as through code reviews, knowledge sharing, or enhancing team tools and practices.

• Daily hands-on engagement with coding agents, including planning with AI, overseeing implementation, and assessing outputs.

• Strong understanding of architecture principles.

• Experience with Rust, or a keen interest in it and willingness to adopt it as the primary programming language.

• Proficiency in C or C++ is a strong alternative.

• Ideal candidates will have experience addressing challenges in e-commerce, affiliate marketing, Google Shopping, Google Ads, or other data-intensive web platforms.

• Familiarity with event-driven systems like Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, or similar technologies.

• Comprehensive understanding of the entire engineering lifecycle: requirements, design, trade-offs, testing, and maintainability.

• Mid- to senior-level experience is required.

• A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline.

• Business-fluent English (C1 level).

• Experience with TypeScript / Next.js is a bonus but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote: work from anywhere within the EU.

• Flexible working hours.

• No weekend or evening shifts.

• 25 days of annual leave.

• Necessary equipment provided.

• Supportive colleagues and a culture of open knowledge sharing.

• Opportunities for professional development and learning.

• Stable, self-funded company.

• Permanent employment contract.

• 40 hours per week.