Senior Backend Engineer

We're all about helping brands turn ideas into impact.

Frontify's 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 we're on the lookout for new team members to share our vision. If you're ready for a brand-new adventure, keep reading

Your team
Your 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, they're parents, gamers, bookworms, adrenaline junkies, and so much more.

Your mission
As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Media Delivery team, you'll take on a challenging role in collaborating with product managers and fellow engineers to build and optimize a dynamic, scalable, and high-performance platform.

Our team takes pride in creating seamless user experiences while ensuring the underlying systems are efficient, robust, and observable. You'll contribute to architectural decisions, and drive technical excellence across the stack with emphasis on the backend.

You'll contribute to the evolution of our platform, ensuring efficient data structures, optimized access/transaction handling and seamless web communication.

Your work will encompass API design and implementation, optimizing backend and frontend performance and ensuring high-quality code with well-defined testing strategies. Your expertise in cloud storage, caching strategies and observability will be instrumental in enhancing our platform's reliability and scalability.

Your Responsibilities

• Work with an experienced team to design, develop and implement media delivery solutions that encompass CDN, API, UI and media processing/transformation.
• 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 in media distribution.
• Develop and enhance frontend components to support media-centric use cases and work on a diversified tech stack.

Your story

• You can work remotely from anywhere in Switzerland or join us on-site in our St. Gallen office, with the flexibility to choose your best work environment.
• You have a strong background and interest in backend development with PHP, MySQL and apply DDD principles to your work process.
• You have previous experience with React and TypeScript, ideally with exposure to the broader React ecosystem or you're eager to learn and develop in these areas.
• 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 understand and apply best practices in CDN usage and maintenance, cloud storage, caching, and scalable architecture.
• You have experience in contract and interface definition, ensuring consistent and maintainable code.
• 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.
• 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 team—whether you love animals, yoga, or travel, we've 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 us
At 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 Steps
Apply:
Submit your CV and answer a few questions. We'll 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 it's a match, welcome to Frontify

This description outlines the primary duties of the role, which may evolve in response to business needs and company growth. We're looking for someone comfortable with change and excited to contribute to a dynamic environment. If this sounds like you, come join us and help shape what's next.

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