(Senior or Staff) Backend Engineer, AI tooling

Jobgether SRL; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 120.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

RSUs

Remote work in Romania

25 days annual leave

Visa sponsorship may be available

International employment provider

Zusammenfassung

Jobgether SRL, listed on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Staff Backend Engineer for AI Tooling in Switzerland. This high-impact role focuses on building platforms and AI-powered tooling to accelerate engineering teams while maintaining quality.

You will own end-to-end initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership to define the roadmap. Remote options exist in Romania, with local employment arrangements as needed.

Qualifikationen

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2–3+ years operating at Senior or Staff level.
• Experience building and operating developer platforms and CI/CD systems.
• Experience delivering tooling that measurably improves developer velocity, productivity, quality, or reduces engineering complexity.
• Experience leading the adoption of AI-powered developer tools across an engineering organization.
• Experience in high-performing engineering environments, scale-ups or established tech organizations.
• Experience integrating third-party services, APIs, SaaS tools into internal systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to mentor other engineers.
• High autonomy with pragmatic trade-offs and stakeholder escalation when needed.

Aufgaben

• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and long-term evolution of developer platform and AI tooling capabilities.
• Lead multi-quarter technical projects with milestones and measurable improvements.
• Build and operate systems covering developer productivity, CI/CD, observability, engineering metrics, code quality automation, testing infrastructure, and AI-assisted development.
• Lead the adoption of AI-powered developer tools across engineering teams.
• Define technical direction and scalable solutions, anticipates longer-term challenges.
• Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap and technical strategy, offering recommendations.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, guidance, and best practices.
• Own operational health using data to guide improvements, maintenance, iteration, and deprecation.
• Ensure reliable, secure integrations with third-party APIs, SaaS products, and external platforms.

Kenntnisse

Developer platforms experience

CI/CD systems

Observability tooling

Code quality automation

AI tooling adoption

Mentoring engineers

Architectural leadership

Tools

APIs

Cloud platforms

CI/CD tooling

Jobbeschreibung

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, AI Tooling based in Switzerland.

This is a high-impact engineering role focused on building the platforms, tooling, and AI-powered capabilities that help engineering teams move faster without compromising quality.
You’ll own complex technical initiatives end to end, from architecture and implementation through production operations and long-term evolution.
Your work will shape developer productivity, CI/CD, testing, observability, engineering insights, and AI-assisted development practices across the organization.
You’ll operate with significant autonomy, leading multi-quarter projects and turning complex technical challenges into measurable outcomes.
You’ll work closely with engineering leadership to influence technical strategy, challenge assumptions, and define the roadmap for your area.
The role combines hands‑on backend engineering with technical leadership, mentorship, and ownership of systems used by other engineers every day.
It’s an opportunity to have a broad technical footprint while helping define how modern, AI‑enabled software engineering teams operate.

Accountabilities

• Own the architecture, development, deployment, and long-term evolution of developer platform and AI tooling capabilities.
• Lead multi-quarter technical projects, breaking complex initiatives into clear milestones and delivering measurable improvements iteratively.
• Build and operate systems covering developer productivity, CI/CD, observability and engineering metrics, code quality automation, testing infrastructure, and AI-assisted development.
• Lead the adoption and effective use of AI-powered developer tools and capabilities across engineering teams.
• Define technical direction for your area, anticipating longer-term challenges and developing scalable solutions and engineering capabilities.
• Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap and technical strategy, providing technical recommendations, challenging requirements where appropriate, and identifying alternative approaches.
• Mentor engineers through design collaboration, code reviews, technical guidance, and strong engineering practices.
• Take ownership of the operational health of systems, using data and feedback to guide improvements, maintenance, iteration, and deprecation.
• Ensure integrations with third-party APIs, SaaS products, and external platforms are reliable, secure, maintainable, and provide a strong developer experience.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2–3+ years operating at Senior or Staff level.
• Strong hands‑on experience building and operating developer platforms, developer tooling, CI/CD systems, observability or metrics infrastructure, code quality automation, testing infrastructure, or related engineering systems.
• Demonstrated experience delivering infrastructure or tooling that measurably improves developer velocity, productivity, quality, or reduces engineering complexity.
• Previous experience leading the adoption of AI-powered developer tools or capabilities across an engineering organization.
• Experience working within a high‑performing engineering environment, such as a scale‑up or established technology organization, with a strong understanding of how infrastructure decisions affect developer productivity and product quality.
• Experience integrating third‑party services, APIs, SaaS tools, or external platforms into internal systems, with strong attention to reliability, security, maintainability, and user experience.
• Strong understanding of how platform and infrastructure investments enable broader product and commercial outcomes.
• Experience owning significant technical areas end to end, including architecture, implementation, operations, and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions, work effectively with leadership, and mentor other engineers.
• High degree of autonomy, sound technical judgment, and the ability to make pragmatic trade-offs while knowing when to involve stakeholders or escalation decisions.

Benefits:

• Starting base salary of €130,000 / £130,000 / CHF 130,000, depending on location and applicable currency.
• Equity in the form of RSUs.
• Full‑time employment; contractor arrangements are not available.
• Remote work options available in Romania, subject to applicable employment, compliance, and right‑to‑work requirements.
• 25 days of annual leave, plus applicable local public holidays.
• Employment typically managed through an international employment provider where required.
• Opportunity to work on AI‑driven developer tooling with broad technical ownership and organizational impact.
• Collaboration with highly experienced engineering teams working at the forefront of AI‑enabled software development.
• Visa sponsorship may be available for eligible candidates already located in a UK/EU country who require support; relocation is not provided.