Senior Backend Engineer

Jobbeschreibung

We're all about helping brands turn ideas into impact. 
Frontifys brand platform transforms how teams organize digital assets, collaborate on projects, and create engaging campaigns. Our people empower thousands of marketers and designers including teams at Uber, Microsoft, Volkswagen, and Telefónica to build engaging brands. 
With headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and offices in London and New York City, we share a vibrant culture built on creativity, collaboration, inclusion, and joy. And were on the lookout for new team members to share our vision. If youre ready for a brand-new adventure, keep reading! 
Your teamYour new team is a group of motivated, collaborative, and innovative Engineers. Working on-site, hybrid, or fully remote, they come together to create and evolve a well-loved product but always keep room for new ideas and approaches. Outside of work, theyre parents, gamers, bookworms, adrenaline junkies, and so much more. 
Your mission 
As a Senior Backend Engineer working in the App & Integration team, youll take on a challenging role in collaborating with product managers, stakeholders, and fellow engineers to build and optimize a dynamic, scalable, and high-impact platform. Our team takes pride in creating seamless user experiences while ensuring the underlying systems are efficient, robust, and extendable. You'll contribute to architectural decisions, and drive technical excellence across the stack with emphasis on the Backend at scale. 
You'll contribute to the evolution of our platform, ensuring efficient data structures, clear API interfaces, building and evolving developer tools and framework, supporting platform extensibility and scale third-party integrations. 
Your work will encompass API design and implementation, ensuring high-quality code with well-defined testing strategies and having a scaleability mindset. Your expertise in API design, scalability and understanding of public facing interfaces will be instrumental in enhancing our platforms reliability and extensibility.

Your responsibilities

• • Work with an experienced team to design, develop and implement hyperscaling solutions to third party systems, increasing the extensibility of our systems and supporting external developers through great documentation.
  • Build and refine API interfaces and service communications, ensuring clarity, scalability, and adaptability.
  • Collaborate across teams to create efficient contracts and interfaces, leveraging your generalist mindset to approach varied challenges when supporting external developers.

Your story

• • You can work remotely from anywhere in Switzerland or on-site in our St. Gallen office or even mix it up during the week! Choose where to work from that works best for you.
  • Youre an expert in PHP and skilled in architecting/designing, developing, and maintaining large software solutions.
  • You have a deep understanding of API design, including RESTful, GraphQL and best practices/principles for structuring efficient, secure, scalable and maintainable APIs as well as networking and web application layer protocols.
  • You are familiar with building software end to end, have a firm understanding of the front end, and have exposure to React.
  • You're skilled in writing unit and integration tests, with a solid grasp of error handling, logging, and observability.
  • You have experience in contract and interface definition, ensuring consistent and maintainable code.
  • You bring experience in building developer tools for external collaborators.
  • Youre familiar with testing frameworks and have a deep understanding of component composition, reusability, accessibility, maintainability and performance best practices.
  • You thrive in a collaborative and growing environment, embracing feedback and continuous improvement.

Why join us?

• Thrive with the tools and support to shape your future at Frontify.
• Be part of a product that connects brands and people with a human touch.
• Enjoy flexibility, opportunities to grow, and exposure to innovative technologies and ideas.
• Join a vibrant, social teamwhether you love animals, yoga, or travel, weve got the Slack channels for you!

 
What we offer

• At least 5 weeks of holiday (PTO)
• Paid educational and well-being days off
• Home office setup budget
• Annual salary review
• Localized benefits
• Invite to our summer company meet-up in Switzerland

 
Important to usAt Frontify, we believe in being true to ourselves: We are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment of vibrant individuals whose diverse perspectives build our collective future. We aim to provide equal opportunities and nurture a workplace free of harassment and discrimination. 
Next StepsApply: Submit your CV and answer a few questions. Well update you on your application.Talent Partner: Meet our Talent Team to discuss Frontify, the role, and your background.Team Meetings: Connect with your future team, discuss the role, showcase your skills, and explore your potential new journey.Join Us: If its a match, welcome to Frontify! 
We are not here to solve one problem we are here to change a system. Join us! 
We also wanted to let you know that we may run preliminary checks on successful candidates. In the instance we run a preliminary check, it will depend on the role you are applying for and will be done in accordance with the applicable law of the country of employment. Well provide you with all the details about the next steps during the interview process