About the Role
<p>Since 2018, we’ve become one of Google’s largest CSS Premium Partners, powering Shopping ads for 1,000+ customers across 20,000+ Merchant Centres in Europe.</p><p>Fully self-funded, profitable and still expanding, we’re a strong and supportive team with a stable foundation. Now we’re looking for a new colleague who wants to be part of it for the long run: <strong>an engineer who gets a goal rather than a ticket, builds with AI as a natural part of the job, and takes ownership from idea to production.</strong></p><h2><strong>Why adstrong</strong></h2><ul><li><p><strong>100% remote:</strong> work from anywhere in the EU, with flexible hours and no weekend or night work.</p></li><li><p><strong>No process chaos:</strong> documentation and procedures are well-structured and digital.</p></li><li><p><strong>No politics:</strong> we encourage proactive decisions and make ours within 24 hours.</p></li><li><p><strong>Stable and growing:</strong> a fully self-funded, fast-growing company with no external investors.</p></li><li><p><strong>Small, skilled team:</strong> a hands-on tech team of around 6 people.</p></li><li><p><strong>Great working culture:</strong> supportive colleagues who help each other and share knowledge openly.</p></li><li><p><strong>AI-first:</strong> coding agents are how we build, and your judgement is what matters.</p></li><li><p><strong>Attractive compensation:</strong> plus all the equipment you need.</p></li><li><p>Missing anything? Mention it in your application, and we’ll see if we can make it happen.</p></li></ul><p></p><h2><strong>What you will do</strong></h2><ul><li><p><strong>Build AI-first:</strong> plan with AI, drive coding agents and review their output with a critical eye.</p></li><li><p><strong>Get a goal, not a ticket:</strong> work directly with colleagues on the business side to gather requirements, align on the solution and build it into working software.</p></li><li><p>Make sound <strong>architecture and data-model decisions</strong>, keeping our systems fast and reliable as we scale.</p></li><li><p><strong>Take ownership</strong> of existing applications and build new solutions for our affiliate business.</p></li><li><p><strong>Design and develop event-driven backend systems</strong> that handle large volumes of product and campaign data, <strong>mostly in Rust</strong> and partly in Python.</p></li><li><p><strong>Own your topics</strong> end to end and keep the team and stakeholders in the loop along the way.</p></li></ul><h2><strong>What you bring</strong></h2><ul><li><p><strong>Experience contributing to a strong engineering culture</strong>, e.g. through code reviews, knowledge sharing, or improving team tools and ways of working.</p></li><li><p><strong>Daily hands-on work with coding agents:</strong> you plan with AI, delegate the implementation and know how to review what comes back, including more complex workflows like one model writing code while another reviews it.</p></li><li><p><strong>Strong architectural awareness:</strong> you know which components and infrastructure to use for which problem, and how to structure what you build.</p></li><li><p><strong>Rust experience</strong>, or curiosity about it and <strong>readiness to make it your main language</strong>, as most of our backend is written in it. <strong>C or C++</strong> experience is a strong alternative.</p></li><li><p>Experience solving problems close to ours, ideally in <strong>e-commerce, affiliate marketing, Google Shopping, Google Ads or other data-heavy web platforms.</strong> Our business team will help you build the domain knowledge.</p></li><li><p>Experience with <strong>event-driven systems</strong> (e.g. Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS or similar)</p></li><li><p><strong>A solid grasp of the full engineering process</strong>: requirements, design, trade-offs, testing and maintainability</p></li><li><p><strong>Mid- or senior-level experience.</strong> We care more about how you think and work than about years on paper. Our business team will help you build the domain knowledge.</p></li><li><p>A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.</p></li><li><p><strong>Business-fluent English</strong> (C1).</p></li></ul><p>Our stack: Rust and some Python on the backend, TypeScript / Next.js on the frontend (handled by our frontend engineers, so it’s optional for you), plus AWS, SQL databases, Elasticsearch and GitLab. Familiarity with any of these is an advantage, but it’s not a checklist you need to match.</p><h2><strong>How you work</strong></h2><ul><li><p><strong>You communicate clearly and proactively.</strong> You’re comfortable talking to business colleagues, ask the right questions early, share progress without being asked and explain technical trade-offs in plain language.</p></li><li><p><strong>You value good engineering</strong> <strong>culture.</strong> We improve as a team, so honest feedback matters to us, and so do your ideas for improving our team culture, tools and the way we work in