Backend Engineer (Rust)

About the Company

At Nimis Consulting, we build software for organizations that require security, reliability, and long-term maintainability from day one.

About the Role

We're growing our engineering team and looking for a Backend Engineer to help design and build modern distributed systems. The first assignment will involve the development of a new customer-facing product, working alongside engineers who care deeply about software quality, automation, observability, and secure-by-design architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services in Rust
• Build distributed and asynchronous systems
• Contribute to architecture and technical decision-making
• Improve system reliability, observability, security, and automation
• Work primarily on long-term products rather than short-lived implementations

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional experience developing backend applications

Required Skills

• Familiarity with the challenges of distributed and asynchronous systems, including concepts such as eventual consistency, idempotency, and event-driven architectures
• Proficiency with Git workflows
• Familiarity with Linux and containerized environments
• Able to comfortably read and write technical documentation, design documents, and engineering discussions in English
• Strong engineering judgment to ensure correctness, security, performance, and maintainability
• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools to increase effectiveness while maintaining critical thinking, code ownership, and engineering rigor
• Curiosity, pragmatism, and willingness to continuously learn

Preferred Skills

• Professional experience with Rust
• TypeScript knowledge
• Familiarity with gRPC and Protocol Buffers
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry (OTel)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native runtime environments

Pay range and compensation package

C3 (€32k-35k): Candidates able to contribute independently with minimal onboarding.

C2 (€27k-30k): Candidates with strong potential who require additional growth on our stack.

Additional benefits include:

• Meal vouchers
• Annual welfare credit
• Supplementary health insurance

Equal Opportunity Statement

This role is based in Rome. We support hybrid work while maintaining a strong preference for regular in-person collaboration. One remote day per week is guaranteed, with additional flexibility depending on project and team needs.

Hiring Process

• Introductory HR call
• Technical discussion via videoconference covering architecture, engineering practices, distributed systems, and software development approach
• On-site session including:
• Practical coding exercise
• Time with the engineering team
• Conversation with company leadership
• An opportunity to explore our office environment and discuss current and upcoming projects

Interested?

If this sounds like the kind of engineering environment you're looking for, send us your CV and tell us about a distributed-system challenge you've worked on and what you learned from it.