Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Frontify's App & Integration team as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to building and optimizing a dynamic, scalable platform. You will collaborate with product managers, stakeholders, and fellow engineers to create seamless user experiences. This challenging role involves API design and implementation, ensuring high-quality code and scalability. Work remotely from anywhere in Switzerland, on-site in St. Gallen, or adopt a hybrid approach. Frontify offers a vibrant culture, flexibility, growth opportunities, and exposure to innovative technologies.

Requirements

• You can work remotely from anywhere in Switzerland or on-site in our St. Gallen office – or even mix it up during the week!
• You’re an expert in PHP and skilled in architecting/designing, developing, and maintaining large software solutions
• 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 are familiar with building software end to end, have a firm understanding of the front end, and have exposure to React
• You're skilled in writing unit and integration tests, with a solid grasp of error handling, logging, and observability
• You have experience in contract and interface definition, ensuring consistent and maintainable code
• You bring experience in building developer tools for external collaborators
• 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

Responsibilities

• Work with an experienced team to design, develop and implement hyperscaling solutions to third party systems, increasing the extensibility of our systems and supporting external developers through great documentation
• 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 when supporting external developers

Benefits

• 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