Senior Backend Engineer (a)*

Senior Backend Engineer (a)*
80 - 100%

8008 Zürich (permanent)
Ringier Medien Schweiz
Contracted hours 80 - 100%
Place of work 8008 Zürich
Type of contract permanent

Join our dynamic and diverse team as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to shaping the architecture of our applications. We seek a motivated and committed engineer to join our expanding team immediately or by arrangement.

Your tasks

  • You will play a significant role in major technical initiatives and projects, assisting in optimizing data pipelines and enhancing service performance
  • You will contribute to our evolving software architecture and crucial technology decisions
  • You will build and maintain backend services, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability
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Your profile

  • You possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and have 6+ years of professional experience in software development
  • You demonstrate strong programming skills in Node.js, Typescript, and Javascript
  • You have a solid understanding of backend technologies such as Redis, NoSQL, SQL Databases, and frameworks like NestJS or Express
  • You possess a solid grasp of AWS Services like SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, and API Gateway
  • You have deep knowledge of caching strategies to unload the origin
  • You are familiar with GraphQL, containerized development, and hosting (Docker)
  • You are fluent in English; German language proficiency is a plus
Enja Künzli
Lead Talent & Learning
enja.kuenzli@ringier.ch

Your benefits with us

The in-house staff restaurant cooks fresh and balanced meals daily at good value for money. Free coffee, tea, mineral water and fruit are available.

All employees may use the 24/7 gym at the Zurich site for free.

Sixteen weeks' maternity leave and four weeks' paternity leave with full pay. Contribution to childcare costs.

We encourage mobile and flexible working, part-time work and job sharing wherever possible. Five weeks' annual leave as standard. There is also the option to purchase an additional 10 days of annual leave.

Employees benefit from a wide range of internal training courses on various topics. External training is supported in the form of financial contributions and time off.

The Pressehaus building in Zurich is situated in an attractive location in the heart of Zurich's Seefeld quarter, just five minutes' walk from the lake.

All employees can take advantage of a wide range of benefits, including discounted publications, mobile subscriptions and other attractive offers.

Ringier Medien Schweiz

More than 4.6 million readers use and trust the media brands of RMS. The portfolio includes Blick as well as the most widely read magazines and journals such as Beobachter, Handelszeitung, Bilanz, cash.ch, Tele, Schweizer Illustrierte, Landliebe, Glückspost, L'Illustré and PME. With its broad range of topics, outstanding reach and strong content, RMS is positioning itself as a future-oriented media company in Switzerland and, supported by the marketing unit Ringier Advertising, is already the preferred partner for advertisers looking for attractive and efficient advertising solutions.

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Enja Künzli
Lead Talent & Learning
enja.kuenzli@ringier.ch