Backend Product Engineer: Scale Microservices for Mobility

Mobility Cooperative; Risch-Rotkreuz; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working conditions

Work-life balance

Professional growth

Job summary

Mobility Cooperative in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, invites a Backend Product Engineer to design, develop, and operate scalable backend services in a modern microservice framework. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software that powers Mobility’s leading mobility platform.

The role emphasizes ownership, DevOps practices, and strong architectural input, with a focus on REST/OpenAPI interfaces, Kafka, and robust monitoring. Fluency in German and English is mandatory.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Software Engineering or Computer Science.
• Several years in the JVM ecosystem with Java, Spring Boot, Gradle and Git.
• Experience designing and operating microservices architectures.
• Experience deploying apps in cloud environments, preferably Azure.
• Strong ownership, DevOps mindset and CI/CD experience.
• Fluent German (C1) and English (B2/C1) are mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate scalable backend services in a microservice architecture.
• Implement requirements using Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
• Design and improve REST/OpenAPI interfaces and Kafka schemas.
• Take end-to-end ownership of services and run them in production.
• Monitor with logging, metrics, and alerting; optimize performance.
• Contribute to architecture decisions across the platform.
• Collaborate with frontend, QA and product teams in Agile settings.
• Lead code reviews and enforce engineering quality standards.
• Maintain clear and sustainable technical documentation.

Skills

JVM experience

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Agile development

Software ownership

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Software Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Microsoft Azure

Job description

Mobility Cooperative in Rotkreuz, Switzerland, invites a Backend Product Engineer to design, develop, and operate scalable backend services in a modern microservice framework. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software that powers Mobility’s leading mobility platform.

The role emphasizes ownership, DevOps practices, and strong architectural input, with a focus on REST/OpenAPI interfaces, Kafka, and robust monitoring. Fluency in German and English is mandatory.