Hybrid Backend Engineer – Developer Experience

at Frontify

• Job title: Backend Engineer – Developer Experience
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: GraphQL, PHP, React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

About the role

• Backend Engineer in Developer Experience team enhancing Frontify's scalable platform. Collaborate with product managers and engineers to build effective solutions and APIs.

Responsibilities

• You will 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.
• You will build and refine API interfaces and service communications, ensuring clarity, scalability, and adaptability.
• You’ll collaborate across teams to create efficient contracts and interfaces, leveraging your generalist mindset to approach varied challenges when supporting external developers.
• You will maintain and enhance existing solutions, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
• You will partner closely with product management, design, and engineering toward viable product development changes from discovery to delivery.
• You’ll coach and mentor fellow engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• 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’re an expert in PHP whilst being skilled in architecting/designing, developing, and maintaining large software solutions.
• You have experience building a product where developers are your customers - you understand their problems and needs, and know how to design solutions for those.
• You are familiar with how to build software end to end with a firm understanding of the frontend with 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’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.

Benefits

• A minimum of 25 days annual leave per year
• Parental, family care, and bereavement leave
• Daily sickness benefits and accident insurance
• Paid educational and wellbeing days off
• Wellbeing, learning and development, and commuter allowance
• Home office setup budget
• Pension fund: contributions paid 60% by us and 40% by you
• Access to exclusive perks and discounts from hundreds of top brands
• Workation: Work from inspiring locations around the world for up to 45 days per year!
• Invite to our summer company meet-up