Senior Software Engineer

Team: IT

Location: Switzerland

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Contribute daily as a senior member of an agile engineering team, following strong software development practices and contributing to the shared codebase.
• Develop, maintain, and improve production applications primarily using Python.
• Design and deliver reliable APIs and integration capabilities that enable partners to connect with the wider product ecosystem at scale.
• Build resilient event-driven workflows incorporating idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, reconciliation, and graceful degradation.
• Design software that remains reliable when interacting with external systems that may have limited control, availability, or predictability.
• Apply strong engineering practices to produce clean, maintainable, well-tested, well-documented, and efficient code.
• Participate in technical discussions covering complex requirements, architecture, design patterns, and implementation approaches with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate directly with customers and technology partners to understand challenges and identify effective technical solutions.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies, libraries, tools, and techniques to determine their suitability for the platform.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and the continuous improvement of development and operational practices.
• Drive strong API design and developer experience so that partners can integrate efficiently and reliably.
• Support knowledge sharing, code reviews, and a collaborative environment where engineering skills and capabilities can grow.
• Own aspects of cloud-native delivery and operations, including deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production incident response.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building, shipping, and operating production applications.
• Strong proficiency in at least one production programming language such as Python, Java, TypeScript, or PHP, with the ability to work effectively across a broader technology stack.
• Strong understanding of relational data modeling, PostgreSQL, caching, API design, distributed systems, and asynchronous or event-driven architectures.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals covering maintainable architecture, design patterns, automated testing, debugging, performance optimization, security, and operational reliability.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and modern API design best practices.
• Experience working in environments where high availability, scalability, security, automation, and observability are core engineering priorities.
• Demonstrated commitment to observability and data-driven engineering decisions through metrics, experiments, prototypes, and system insights.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and a passion for building reliable, developer-friendly APIs.
• Experience owning cloud-native application delivery and operations, including technologies such as Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, AWS, CI/CD, and observability platforms.
• Experience participating in or leading production incident response and operational troubleshooting.
• Strong teamwork, organization, prioritization, and time-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with business-level English proficiency.
• Comfortable collaborating effectively within a fully remote and globally distributed engineering organization.
• Strong sense of ownership and a pragmatic approach to solving complex technical problems.

Benefits

• Fully remote, remote-first working environment.
• Opportunity to work with an international, globally distributed team across numerous countries and time zones.
• Paid time off in accordance with local labor requirements.
• Monthly Wellness Fridays, providing an extended weekend each month.
• Fully paid parental leave.
• Home office stipend based on country of residence.
• Access to professional development courses through an internal learning platform.
• Opportunities for upskilling, manager training, knowledge sharing, and continued professional development.
• Exposure to modern cloud-native technologies and large-scale distributed systems.
• Opportunity to work on complex integrations connecting a broad ecosystem of technology partners.
• Inclusive, collaborative culture that values diverse perspectives and backgrounds.
• Meaningful technical ownership and opportunities to influence architecture, engineering practices, and product reliability.