Software Engineer

BLP; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BLP in Zürich is seeking a backend engineer to join dedicated product teams responsible for automated document processing. You will own substantial parts of the product, contribute to architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional colleagues.

The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, high-quality code, and shipping value quickly. You will work in a modern stack (Go, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes) and mentor teammates while growing with the company.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience.
• Degree in CS or related field.
• Strong knowledge of Clean Code and Clean Architecture.
• Ability to translate business problems into precise requirements.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with ownership of technical work.
• Team-oriented and proactive in supporting goals.
• Excellent abstraction and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive Impact: translate requirements into product improvements.
• Build Great Software: design and develop maintainable, high-quality code.
• Lead and Influence: guide technical direction and mentor teammates.
• Promote Innovation and Collaboration: share learnings and improve processes.
• The Tech Stack includes Golang, MySQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and Github CI/CD.

Skills

Software craftsmanship

Product thinking

Entrepreneurial mindset

Ownership

Team collaboration

Communication

Abstraction

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Join BLP and help make the world’s business processes autonomous!

Our agentic platform helps finance and operations teams worldwide remove manual work from their core business processes, so work runs end-to-end with greater control and significant productivity gains.

Today, over 550 enterprise customers use BLP across 1,300+ deployed projects. In the processes we automate, customers achieve productivity improvements of 5 to 10 times.

To date, BLP remains majority employee-owned, with Goldman Sachs holding a minority stake as a growth investor. Our success is driven by deep expertise in technology and business processes, a superior product with strong product-market fit, reflected in an expanding customer base that includes Fortune 500 companies.

BLP is one of Switzerland's fastest-growing SaaS scale-ups; we are now entering our next phase of growth. From our headquarters on Zürich's Bahnhofstrasse, we're expanding globally, with a growing presence across Europe and North America.

Join us and help make autonomous operations the new standard.

About The Role

At blp, we create cutting-edge products for automated document processing. We have dedicated engineering teams for each product. The teams fully own their product, that means we understand the business problem that our product solves and own the roadmap how the product evolves.

We have a strong sense of end-to-end ownership and a desire to have direct impact by solving real world problems. As a team, we also strive to own and shape how we work together and how we grow, both as individuals and as a team.

What you'll do

• Drive Impact: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into possible improvements to our product.
• Build Great Software: Design and develop clean, maintainable, and high-quality software, applying a wide range of principles including functional patterns. Conduct code reviews and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
• Lead and Influence: Guide technical direction for major initiatives, shape how the product evolves and mentor team members along the way.
• Promote Innovation and Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues, share what you learn openly, and continuously improve processes, tools, and team practices.
• The Tech Stack for this role includes Golang, MySQL, Docker images deployed on a Kubernetes cluster in our cloud infrastructure (GCS, AWS or Azure) and Github CI/CD.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
• Passionate about software craftsmanship: Strong understanding of software development principles, Clean Code and Clean Architecture.
• Product thinking: Ability to translate business problems into precise requirements, specifications and ultimately into code.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: link your daily work to team and company goals, balance cost and benefit, deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.
• Ownership: take responsibility for your technical work, for the product we build and the team we shape.
• Team-oriented: proactively support team goals, close gaps.
• Abstraction and efficient communication: simplify complex systems, identify core concepts, communicate complex ideas to different stakeholders.

What you'll get

• Full ownership. You own the product's roadmap, from business problem to shipped code.
• End-to-end impact. You're on a team that owns what it builds, start to finish.
• A modern, varied tech stack. Continuous learning as the platform scales.

About

Learn more about blp and our values at blp.digital/company/careers.

Please note

London - hybrid, wider UK - remote

Zurich: Onsite

Europe: Remote