Backend Engineer

Job summary:

We are adding a Backend Engineer to our Notifications team. The Notifications team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in Switzerland. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

What you'll do:

• Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS
• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries

Compensation and benefits:

Pay: CHF 125,000 - CHF 157,000 annually

• Company pension scheme
• 30 days of annual leave
• Christmas bonus
• Childcare allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Urban Sports Club membership

Company overview:

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.

Please submit your CV in English.

Start: Immediately.

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