Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations

Jobgether; Switzerland; Remote; CHF 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work 100%

Equity options

Team offsites

Professional development

Paid leave

Country-specific benefits

AI tools access

Job summary

Partner company in Europe is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations based in Europe to lead backend evolution and scalable API development.

You will drive migration from monoliths, design robust services in PHP/Go, and collaborate across Product and Design to deliver value while embracing AI-assisted tooling and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience with system design focus.
• Expertise in PHP and/or Go with ability to work across both.
• Experience building high-traffic customer-facing apps and distributed systems.
• Strong API design experience (REST/GraphQL) with versioning and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain robust backend services using PHP and Go.
• Lead extraction of services from monolithic architecture.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to align priorities and deliver value.
• Design and implement APIs for AI agents and automated workflows.
• Optimize performance and latency with frontend teams.
• Evolve event-driven architectures with DDD principles.
• Integrate AI-powered development tools into daily workflows.
• Monitor high-traffic backends and integrations with third-party platforms.

Skills

Backend architecture

PHP / Go

API design (REST/GraphQL)

DDD / domain-driven design

Distributed systems

Cloud (AWS)

Team collaboration

English communication

Tools

Claude/Copilot

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer, Integrations based in Switzerland.

Accountabilities:

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain robust backend services using PHP and Go, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance.
• Lead the extraction of services from an existing monolithic architecture by defining clear service boundaries, ownership models, and pragmatic migration strategies.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and cross-functional stakeholders to shape technical priorities and ensure backend solutions deliver meaningful business value.
• Design and implement high-quality APIs that enable AI agents and automated workflows to interact reliably with guest-facing product capabilities.
• Optimize application performance, including page speed, response times, latency, and overall system reliability, working closely with frontend engineering teams.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and help establish scalable engineering practices while balancing speed of delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Improve and evolve event-driven, service-oriented architectures using Domain-Driven Design principles.
• Integrate AI-assisted development tools into daily engineering workflows to improve productivity, code quality, and delivery speed.
• Monitor and operate high-traffic backend systems, ensuring seamless integrations with major third-party platforms and minimal disruption to customer workflows.
• Promote effective collaboration across Engineering, Product, and Design while contributing to technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Requirements:

• At least 6 years of professional experience as a Backend Engineer, with a strong foundation in software engineering and backend system design.
• Advanced proficiency in PHP and/or Go (Golang), with the willingness and ability to work across both technologies.
• Proven experience designing, developing, and operating high-traffic, customer-facing applications and distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience decomposing monolithic applications or extracting independent services, with a pragmatic understanding of architectural trade-offs.
• Strong API design experience, including REST, GraphQL, or similar technologies, with a focus on usability, versioning, scalability, and maintainability.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, service-oriented systems, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles.
• Experience designing APIs for AI agents, LLM-powered applications, or automated clients is a strong advantage.
• Practical experience using AI-powered coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent tools as part of everyday development.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure and services; AWS experience is considered a plus.
• Familiarity with message queues and asynchronous processing technologies, such as AWS SQS, is an advantage.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to make sound technical decisions in complex environments.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with distributed, international teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• A proactive mindset, strong sense of ownership, and ability to balance independent execution with collaborative decision-making.
• Must be physically based in Europe to ensure effective collaboration with colleagues and internal stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation: Market-aligned salary based on the applicant's country of residence.
• 100% Remote Work: Complete flexibility to work from home, a coworking space, or another suitable location within your country of residence.
• Temporary International Remote Work: Possibility to work temporarily from another country with prior approval from your team lead, in accordance with the remote working policy.
• Equity and Stock Options: Access to company stock options, allowing employees to share in the organization's long-term growth and success.
• Annual Team Offsites: Opportunities to meet colleagues in person once a year, strengthen team relationships, align on strategy, and collaborate in new locations.
• Professional Development: Significant learning opportunities, career advancement prospects, and exposure to complex technical challenges within a rapidly growing business.
• Annual Paid Leave: Paid vacation entitlement aligned with local employment regulations and country-specific contractual arrangements.
• Country-Specific Benefits: Access to additional benefits depending on your country of residence, including health insurance and pension contributions where applicable.
• International Team Culture: Opportunity to collaborate with a diverse, globally distributed team spanning more than 40 countries.
• Values-Driven Leadership: A collaborative working environment where company values guide everyday decisions, leadership practices, and long-term strategy.
• AI-Powered Engineering Environment: Access to advanced AI development tools, including a Claude Team Premium subscription, to support efficient and innovative software development.