Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer – Brand Fundamentals

at Frontify

• Job title: Senior Backend Engineer – Brand Fundamentals
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PHP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

About the role

• Senior Backend Engineer collaborating with engineers and product managers at Frontify to enhance brand features. Building scalable systems while maintaining robust architecture in a vibrant team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and product designers to build a solid foundation for brand features.
• Deliver well-architected solutions and maintainable code.
• Work with an interdisciplinary team of experienced professionals to discover, design, and develop core and platform solutions that serve over half a million of monthly active users.
• Build and refine composable, well-maintained modules.
• Continuously improve the team's overall quality.
• Support other teams in integrating brand fundamentals into other areas of the product

Requirements

• You thrive in interdisciplinary teams and have a growth mindset, embracing feedback and continuous learning.
• You have experience with modern PHP, and you are open to working with different technologies, whether backend or frontend, as needed.
• Ideally, you have experience with AI/ML software development.
• You question the status quo and look for ways to improve existing processes while keeping your eye on the prize: deliver customer value.
• You excel at architecting, designing, developing, and maintaining large software solutions. You don't shy away from dealing with technical debt.
• You're skilled in writing unit and integration tests, with a solid grasp of error handling, logging, and observability.
• You’re familiar with testing frameworks and have a deep understanding of component composition, reusability, accessibility, maintainability and performance best practices.
• Ideally, you would have some experience with graph databases, though it is not a must have

Benefits

• A minimum of 25 days annual leave per year
• Parental, family care, and bereavement leave
• Daily sickness benefits and accident insurance
• Paid educational and wellbeing days off
• Wellbeing, learning and development, and commuter allowance
• Home office setup budget
• Pension fund: contributions paid 60% by us and 40% by you
• Access to exclusive perks and discounts from hundreds of top brands
• Workation: Work from inspiring locations around the world for up to 45 days per year!
• Invite to our summer company meet-up