Senior Backend Engineer (Media Delivery)

Frontify; Lavamünd; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Parental, family leave

Sickness benefits

Educational and wellbeing days off

Wellbeing & development allowance

Home office budget

Pension contributions

Workation opportunities

Company meets-up

Job summary

Frontify seeks a senior backend engineer to own and enhance a high-scale media processing path, including FFmpeg-based transformations and Kubernetes-driven services. You will work across Node.js, TypeScript, and C++ core within a fast-paced team delivering reliable media delivery at scale.

You will operate on AWS with EKS, Helm, and caching layers, while optimizing performance and costs. A strong emphasis on documentation, reviews, and cross-functional collaboration drives this role.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend and background processing services (Node.js, TypeScript, Go, or similar).
• Operated production services on Kubernetes with Helm, monitoring, and live debugging.
• Strong AWS architecture experience for S3, CloudFront, Lambda, and ALB at scale.
• Comfortable with Docker and Linux; able to read and debug native C++ if needed.
• Experience with media pipelines (FFmpeg, codecs) is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance the media transformation engine (FFmpeg) via Node.js and C++ core.
• Design and operate services on Kubernetes (EKS), Helm, deployments, and alerts.
• Work on async bulk-processing: job queues, autoscaling for spike workloads.
• Maintain fast and cost-efficient delivery with caching/CDN (Varnish, HAProxy, CloudFront).
• Participate in code reviews and document designs, decisions, and runbooks.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

Go

English fluency

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Docker

Linux

Varnish

HAProxy

CloudFront

FFmpeg

Job description

Frontify is the brand platform behind some of the world's leading organizations, including Microsoft, Telefónica, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, and Kia. We help every team bring brands to life — with governance in one place, seamless workflows across the tools people already use, and a foundation that's ready for AI.

We're driven by collaboration, curiosity, and the belief that great work can happen anywhere. What began in St. Gallen has grown to London, New York, and beyond. Wherever you join us, you'll take ownership from day one, shape work that reaches global brands, and help redefine how brands work in the age of AI.

Your Mission

Our team owns Frontify’s media delivery path end-to-end, the engine that processes and serves every image and video, at ~180 TB of traffic a month. We build it and run it: from bulk asset transformation and fast preview generation to the Kubernetes infrastructure and CDN caching it all runs on. Our mission: media processing and delivery that absorbs any customer’s spike without ever slowing another customer, at a cost we’re proud of. You will play a significant role in making this a reality and in solving the technical challenges along the way.

Your Responsibilities

• You'll build and enhance our media transformation engine — resizing, format conversion, and video processing — built on FFmpeg and native libraries, mostly through our Node.js services and occasionally in the C++ core.

• You'll design and operate our services on Kubernetes (EKS): Helm charts, deployments, alerts. And simplifying what's grown too complex.

• You'll work on our async bulk-processing capabilities: job queues, autoscaling for spiky workloads, and fairness between customers.

• You'll help keep the delivery path fast and cheap, working with our caching and CDN layer (Varnish, HAProxy, CloudFront).

• You'll participate in code reviews and write things down — designs, decisions, and runbooks — so the team's knowledge lives in documents, not in heads.

Your Story

• You have experience designing, building, and maintaining high-quality, scalable backend and background processing services (Node.js, TypeScript, Go, or similar).

• You have operated your own services in production on Kubernetes — Helm, monitoring, debugging live systems — not just deployed once and walked away.

• You possess solid experience with AWS architecture and infrastructure, particularly regarding performance optimisation and cost management for S3, CloudFront, Lambda functions, and ALB at scale.

• You're comfortable in Docker and Linux, and can read, compile and debug native code (C++) when the engine misbehaves, but you don't need to be a C++ expert.

• Experience with media pipelines — FFmpeg, codecs, image or video processing — is a big plus; HDR and video expertise especially so.

• Frontify's product is largely PHP; our path is mostly C++ and Node.js with a couple of PHP components. You don't need to be a PHP developer — but reading it and fixing the occasional bug shouldn't put you off.

• You speak English fluently.

What We Offer

• 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

We understand that every candidate's experience is different. If you're interested in this role but don't tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

A few things to know

Frontify is a place where authenticity and inclusion thrive, empowering every voice to help shape our future. We're committed to providing a fair and accessible recruitment process. If you have a disability and require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please speak with your Talent Partner. Any information you share will remain confidential.

This description outlines the primary duties of the role, which may evolve in response to business needs and company growth. We're looking for someone comfortable with change and excited to contribute to a dynamic environment. If this sounds like you, join us and help shape the future of branding.

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