Backend Engineer for Glacierware Platform

Corintis; Vaud; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Corintis, a Switzerland-based startup at the EPFL Campus in St. Sulpice, is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build Glacierware, a platform for designing and simulating microfluidic cooling for high-power chips.

You will work on APIs, data models, real-time updates, and orchestration of long-running solver jobs on external compute resources. Our backend includes Java Spring Boot services, a Python/FastAPI service, MongoDB, and WebSocket/STOMP-based updates to the web application.

Qualifications

• Four+ years of experience building production backend services in Java and Spring Boot.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain REST and WebSocket APIs used by the Glacierware application.
• Extend the scheduler, monitors, and task workers that coordinate simulation and optimization jobs on external compute resources.
• Support asynchronous workflows, including job tracking, parameter sweeps, and project accounting.
• Design and evolve MongoDB document schemas and change-stream pipelines that keep the application up to date.
• Maintain and improve the Python/FastAPI service alongside the Java services.
• Improve test coverage, monitoring, logging, and deployments to make the platform more reliable and easier to operate.
• Review code, share knowledge, and collaborate with frontend and simulation engineers on end-to-end features.

Skills

Java Spring Boot

APIs design

MongoDB

Python

FastAPI

Asynchronous workflows

Security SDLC

English fluency

Tools

MongoDB

Java

Spring Boot

Python

FastAPI

Job description

Corintis, a Switzerland-based startup at the EPFL Campus in St. Sulpice, is seeking a Backend Engineer to help build Glacierware, a platform for designing and simulating microfluidic cooling for high-power chips.

You will work on APIs, data models, real-time updates, and orchestration of long-running solver jobs on external compute resources. Our backend includes Java Spring Boot services, a Python/FastAPI service, MongoDB, and WebSocket/STOMP-based updates to the web application.