Each and every day, around 15,000 employees in the Valora network work to brighten up their customers’ journey with a comprehensive convenience and food offering – nearby, quick, convenient and fresh. The more than 2,700 small-scale outlets of Valora are located at highly frequented sites in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The company includes, among others, the formats k kiosk, Brezelkönig, BackWerk, Ditsch, Press & Books, avec, Caffè Spettacolo and the popular own brand ok.– as well as a continuously growing range of digital services. Valora is also one of the world’s leading producers of pretzels and benefits from a well-integrated value chain in the area of baked goods.

Zurich / Muttenz / Remote

Software Engineer, Fullstack 80-100%

Engineering for you is more about a clean codebase, paradigms and algorithms than languages, frameworks or platforms. You have chosen your favorite stack, but you are able to get stuff done in any environment you need to and with every change you leave the codebase better off than before. You will be one of the first members of our engineering team and will work on many different projects and touch many different systems: from our app backends (REST webservices) to our demand forecasting service and our cash register.

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Create new and work on existing systems across a wide range of projects (e.g. a clean and elegant API layer spanning across all of our legacy systems, backend APIs consumed by our web and mobile apps, production tooling for our machine learning models etc.)


• Improve and maintain our production environment, for example by adding monitoring and alerting (DevOps)


• Work closely together with our frontend engineering and data science teams

Key skills / requirements

• Software development experience in a general purpose programming language


• BSc degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience


• Ability to quickly get up to speed in any programming language or system if needed


• Ability to tackle problems outside your comfort zone


• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English

Desirable:

• Experience in any of the following programming languages: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Rust or Go


• Experience working with one or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, service oriented architectures, REST APIs, developing large software systems


• Experience working in teams following an agile software development methodology


• Basic knowledge of German

What we offer

• Build products for a customer base of more than 5 million people across 5 countries


• Access the resources of a big corporate but get the freedom of working in an uncomplicated environment


• Work from home when you need to


• Competitive salary


• 9 out of 12 points on “The Joel Test” (www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/)

A contact you should connect with

We look forward to receiving your complete application documents. Please apply online only. Direct applications are preferred.

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Valora — brightens up your journey

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Valora Schweiz AG
Mladen Mumalo

— www.valora.com

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