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

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

📋 Description

• Strategize with AI, guide coding agents, and critically evaluate their results.

• Collaborate directly with business teams to gather requirements, align on methodologies, and deliver functional software.

• Make architectural and data-model decisions that ensure systems are swift and reliable as the company expands.

• Take charge of existing applications and develop new solutions for the affiliate sector.

• Design and create event-driven backend systems that manage large quantities of product and campaign data.

• Primarily develop using Rust and partially in Python.

• Own projects from inception to completion while keeping the team and stakeholders updated.

• Engage in a robust engineering culture through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and enhancing tools and methodologies.

• Work alongside business colleagues and articulate technical trade-offs in straightforward language.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Daily hands-on involvement with coding agents, which includes planning with AI, assigning tasks, and critically assessing outputs.

• Strong architectural insight and capability to choose suitable components and infrastructure.

• Experience with Rust, or willingness and readiness to adopt Rust as the primary programming language.

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

• Familiarity with e-commerce, affiliate marketing, Google Shopping, Google Ads, or other data-intensive web platforms is preferred.

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

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

• Mid- to senior-level experience is required.

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

• Proficiency in business English (C1 or higher).

• Frontend experience with TypeScript/Next.js is advantageous but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from any location within the EU.

• Flexible working hours.

• No weekend or night shifts.

• 25 days of annual leave.

• Equipment provided.

• A stable, fully self-funded, and profitable organization.

• A supportive working environment that encourages knowledge sharing.

• A small, skilled team.

• Opportunities for professional development through learning and growth.

• No traditional coding tests; a realistic goal-oriented interview process.