Backend Developer

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

Position summary:

We're looking for a Backend Developer to join our team. This is a remote role. This hire will help us split a large monolith into a handful of well-defined services without breaking anything customers rely on. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. You can work from home anywhere in Switzerland. We have no office requirement. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In this role you will:

• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.

Qualifications:

• 2-4 years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.

Preferred qualifications:

• Kubernetes, including Helm charts.
• Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Terraform or Pulumi.

Salary: CHF 132,000-CHF 155,000 per year

Why work with us:

• Company pension scheme.
• Holiday pay.
• Learning budget.
• Meal allowance.
• Childcare allowance.
• Home office equipment.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Start: Flexible.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Alpen Technologies GmbH.