Backend Software Engineer (m/f/d), Rust – AI-first E-commerce Tech at adstrong · Berlin
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AWS
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C++
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CSS
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Kafka
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Education
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The ad says: “A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.”
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Languages: English
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Experience contributing to a strong engineering culture
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, e.g. through code reviews, knowledge sharing, or improving team tools and ways of working.
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you plan with AI, delegate the implementation and know how to review what comes back, including more complex workflows like one model writin
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you know which components and infrastructure to use for which problem, and how to structure what you build.
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Rust experience
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, or curiosity about it and
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readiness to make it your main language
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, as most of our backend is written in it.
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: Rust is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: CSS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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