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

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with AI, manage coding agents, and critically assess their outcomes.

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

• Make architectural and data model choices to ensure systems remain efficient and reliable as the company expands.

• Take ownership of existing applications while creating new solutions for the affiliate sector.

• Design and implement event-driven backend systems that can process large volumes of product and campaign data.

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

• Manage topics from start to finish, ensuring the team and stakeholders are kept updated.

• Enhance the engineering culture through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and improving tools and workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Daily hands-on interaction with coding agents, including planning with AI, assigning tasks, and evaluating outcomes.

• Strong awareness of architectural principles.

• Experience with Rust, or a keen interest in learning Rust and using it as the primary programming language.

• Proficiency in C or C++ serves as a strong alternative.

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

• Familiarity with event-driven systems such as Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, or equivalent technologies.

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

• Mid-level or senior-level experience is preferred.

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

• Proficiency in business-level English (C1).

• Frontend experience is beneficial but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote: work from anywhere within the EU.

• Flexible working hours.

• No weekend or night shifts.

• 25 days of annual leave.

• Necessary equipment provided.

• A stable, fully self-funded, and rapidly growing company.

• Supportive colleagues and an environment that encourages open knowledge sharing.

• Well-organized digital documentation and processes.

• Proactive decision-making within 24 hours.

• AI-focused tools and coding agents.

• Opportunities for learning, growth, and long-term employment.