Remote Backend Engineer - API & Data

Jobgether SRL; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 56,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity participation

Profit sharing

Fully remote

Flexible schedule

40 hours per week

Learning and experimentation

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Jobgether SRL, representing a partner company, seeks a Backend Engineer in Switzerland to own and evolve central API and backend services. You'll work with Node.js and TypeScript, focusing on API design, data modeling, performance, and developer experience, delivering scalable systems and MVPs in a fully remote, asynchronous setup across Europe.

You'll collaborate with frontend, design, and product teams, taking end-to-end ownership and shaping engineering standards and architecture for a

Qualifications

• Several years of professional experience building large-scale APIs and backend systems.
• Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript.
• Strong experience with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis or Kafka.
• High standards for stability, developer experience, performance, and code quality.
• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of projects across technologies and teams.
• Strong communication in German and English in a remote, partially asynchronous environment.
• Nice to have: experience with financial data, AI/LLMs, and backend dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain the central API and backend services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Build fast, efficient services delivering data and calculations with strong developer experience.
• Design intuitive APIs and data models to abstract complexity for internal and external users.
• Scale backend systems while maintaining reliability and performance.
• Validate new products and MVPs through rapid experiments in a remote setup.
• Own the internal API as a product with stability, usability, and evolution.
• Debug production issues and uphold engineering standards and tooling.
• Collaborate with frontend, design, and product teams on projects from improvements to large initiatives.
• Take end-to-end ownership across technologies, services, and stakeholders.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

API design

Data modeling

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

German language

English language

Job description

Jobgether SRL, representing a partner company, seeks a Backend Engineer in Switzerland to own and evolve central API and backend services. You'll work with Node.js and TypeScript, focusing on API design, data modeling, performance, and developer experience, delivering scalable systems and MVPs in a fully remote, asynchronous setup across Europe.

You'll collaborate with frontend, design, and product teams, taking end-to-end ownership and shaping engineering standards and architecture for a