Core Backend Engineer — Remote, Equity & Unlimited PTO

Jobgether; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 66,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Unlimited PTO

Remote work

Home office stipend

Apple laptop provided

Learning & development budget

Family leave

Team offsites

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer: Core based in Switzerland, offering a fully remote role. You will contribute to a globally scalable ecommerce search and discovery platform, focusing on backend systems, reliability, and performance.

Join an engineering team that values ownership and continuous improvement, delivering AI-driven shopping experiences and robust infrastructure for billions of requests daily. Equity options and a generous learning budget accompany the role.

Qualifications

• Strong computer science fundamentals including algorithms and data structures.
• Experience building, scaling, high-traffic backend systems with reliability.
• Experience designing and operating backend infrastructure including deployment automation and observability.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, performance, reliability, and production environments.
• Ability to work across stack layers from performance-critical code to production ops.
• Familiarity with Rust, C++, Python; AWS; Jenkins and GitHub Actions; monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain core backend services for a large-scale search platform.
• Build and optimize highly available, distributed systems handling billions of requests daily.
• Develop scalable solutions linking user requests, product catalogs, and platform capabilities.
• Contribute to infrastructure design, deployment automation, capacity planning, and production operations.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance and resilience across distributed environments.
• Work across layers from application code to infrastructure and operations.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve architecture and platform capabilities.

Skills

Algorithms

Concurrency

Systems design

Distributed systems

Data structures

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer: Core based in Switzerland, offering a fully remote role. You will contribute to a globally scalable ecommerce search and discovery platform, focusing on backend systems, reliability, and performance.

Join an engineering team that values ownership and continuous improvement, delivering AI-driven shopping experiences and robust infrastructure for billions of requests daily. Equity options and a generous learning budget accompany the role.