Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Real-Time Cloud, Hybrid

Nexthink; Lausanne; Hybrid; CHF 120.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid work model

Lake Geneva view office

Unlimited vacation

Relocation package

Volunteer days

Zusammenfassung

Nexthink is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, reliable backend systems for Nexthink Assist, our AI-native product. You will own core services and infrastructure for large-scale data processing and real-time interactions, collaborating across teams.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical direction, and ensure high availability, performance, and observability in a highly distributed environment.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of professional backend engineering experience.
• Proficient in modern Java (17+).
• Proven experience designing and scaling backend systems for millions of users or high-throughput real-time services.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS or similar), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Experience with distributed data systems (Redis, Apache Kafka).
• Exposure to LLM integration (prompting, evaluation, observability).
• Strong background in high availability systems, failover, and resiliency design.
• Curious mindset with an eagerness to learn and adapt.
• Excellent knowledge of observability practices: logging, monitoring, tracing, metrics.
• Strong communication skills in English, able to explain complex technical topics clearly.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and scale distributed backend systems that serve millions of users.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of features: from design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Architect real-time, low-latency APIs and backend services for AI-driven conversational systems within Assist.
• Develop cloud-native services in Java, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Work on infrastructure components, including AWS-based deployments, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Build robust APIs and backend services that power AI-driven products and real-time interactions.
• Ensure resiliency, fault tolerance, and compliance in high-throughput environments.
• Collaborate with product managers, infrastructure engineers, and other teams to deliver production-ready systems.
• Lead technical execution: Break down complex project requirements into actionable tasks, distribute work effectively among team members, and unblock the team to maintain velocity.
• Mentor and grow talent: Actively guide junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a collaborative culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and best practices across distributed team setups.
• Manage stakeholders: Serve as the primary technical liaison for product managers and cross-functional partners, translating product vision into technical strategy and proactively communicating progress, risks, and architectural trade-offs.

Kenntnisse

Backend engineering

Java

Cloud-native

Distributed data

Observability

English communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

Apache Kafka

Jobbeschreibung

Nexthink is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, reliable backend systems for Nexthink Assist, our AI-native product. You will own core services and infrastructure for large-scale data processing and real-time interactions, collaborating across teams.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical direction, and ensure high availability, performance, and observability in a highly distributed environment.