Senior Back-End 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.

Alpen Technologies is hiring for the Senior Back-End Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. You'll work mostly on server-side code: services, queues, databases and the glue between them. Little to no frontend work. You can work from home anywhere in Switzerland. We have no office requirement. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Duties:

Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't. Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current. Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS. Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.

Required qualifications:

7+ years of backend development experience in a production environment. Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production. Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.

Preferred qualifications:

Terraform or Pulumi. Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.

Pay and benefits:

Salary: CHF 149,000 - CHF 199,000 a year

Company pension scheme. Holiday pay. Flexible working hours. Meal allowance. Urban Sports Club membership. 30 days of annual leave. Home office equipment.

Let us know your current notice period and salary expectations.

Start: Immediately.

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