Sr. Backend Developer

Req ID:  20244 Posted on:  25-Feb-2021 Location: 

Prilly_Floris (CH01), Switzerland

Department:  Research & Development (50000104) Job Family:  Information Technology

 

 

 

To help build the next generation of trusted digital identity system, we are looking for a purpose driven, experienced sr. backend developer to join our fast-growing team

 

 

 

SENIOR BACKEND DEVELOPER

 

 

 

 

WHAT YOU WILL DO 

 

• Build and maintain a portfolio of high performing key technology building blocks powering our products.


• Develop pluggable, versioned protocols defined through a community specification process, including contributing to the specification and providing implementation experience feedback.


• Design and review software architecture.


• Design and build APIs to expose a useful abstraction for client business services, enabling suitable control while hiding complexity.


• Write extensive unit tests for your code to ensure ongoing coverage of the codebase (currently with > 98% coverage).


• Contribute to standards and best practice for software engineering.

 

 

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU 

 

• You have a strong developer experience in languages such as Kotlin, Python and/or Java. Besides being an experienced developer that can effectively write high quality, scalable code that powers novel solutions.


• You have proven hands-on experience in building large scale systems and understand all relevant concepts of the backend domain.


• You can deal with a degree of uncertainty and transform that into strong requirements and high performing software. Experience with large scale distributed systems is an advantage.


• You understand and apply security and data protection mechanisms, and have experience in developing scalable, could-native deployment applications; specifically, containers, orchestration platforms (Docker/Kubernetes/Helm), APIs (eg gRPC/REST) and systems based on messaging architecture (eg Kafka).


• You understand and can articulate the impact of technology choices.


• You are a team-player that can communicate comfortably in English. French is a plus. 

 

 

We offer an exciting and challenging role, with great potential for personal development within a unique organization in a fascinating and fast-growing industry. Your file will be handled with upmost confidentiality and discretion.