Backend Engineer — AI-Powered Data Platform

present of AI; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

present of AI is seeking a mid-level Backend Engineer in Zurich to contribute to a new data platform where core design choices are still open. You will own production systems and help push reliability and scale in a hands-on role.

Ideal candidates have shipped stateful backend services, understand SQL and NoSQL databases, and can reason from first principles when information is incomplete. End-to-end ownership matters more than a checklist of tools.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping and running stateful backend services.
• Strong database knowledge (SQL/NoSQL).
• Ability to reason from first principles with incomplete information.
• End-to-end ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own design and operation of production-grade backend systems.
• Contribute to the data platform supporting AI workloads.
• Collaborate on architecture decisions for reliability and scale.

Skills

Stateful backends

SQL databases

NoSQL databases

Distributed systems

Job description

present of AI is seeking a mid-level Backend Engineer in Zurich to contribute to a new data platform where core design choices are still open. You will own production systems and help push reliability and scale in a hands-on role.

Ideal candidates have shipped stateful backend services, understand SQL and NoSQL databases, and can reason from first principles when information is incomplete. End-to-end ownership matters more than a checklist of tools.