Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Location: Mendrisio, Switzerland

Please note, this position is based in our Swiss HQ in Mendrisio, Switzerland, which is 7km over the border from Italy and easily commutable from Milan, Como, Varese or Lugano. We are also happy to assist with your relocation to this beautiful part of Europe and we have a hybrid remote working policy.

Your Role:

• We’re looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer to help us take our product to the next level. We move seamlessly from full-stack web development, to mobile, to deployment/scaling. This position will take ownership of how features are implemented, from user experience to backend, involving our web app,mobile app, APIs, and backend infrastructure. You’ll have a chance to greatly impact the culture of our development team.

• Our ideal candidate is a humble leader, equally capable of teaching and learning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be able to write well-structured, maintainable, idiomatic code with good documentation; unit tests for every feature, bug fixing, and code reviews.
• Communicate with the rest of the company (e.g. sales, marketing, UX, etc.) to ensure the functionality you’re implementing is what was intended.
• Collaborate on a cross-functional team, including front-end developers, designers and product managers, to quickly deliver new features.
• Work closely with the Operations Team to ensure smooth deployments, ensuring that errors are logged with enough info to debug effectively.

Your Experience:

• Passion for coding, web technologies, and shipping features that drive user adoption
• Solid experience in coding with backend programming languages, such as Kotlin, Python, Go, Java, NodeJS, C/C++, C#. Experience with Kotlin and Spring Boot is preferred
• Solid experience with relational databases and with other types of databases (no SQL): PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis is an advantage
• Advanced knowledge and experience on modern web patterns: AJAX, RESTful APIs, SOA, WebSocket, client-side rendering, etc.
• Understanding of client-side technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Web Components
• Experience with distributed version control systems: mostly Git (GitHub and/or Bitbucket)
• Familiarity with cloud-oriented technologies: AWS, Google Cloud, Heroku, Docker
• Familiar with cloud architecture patterns and best practices for designing highly available, scalable, and secure systems.
• Good level of English proficiency, both spoken and written
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a sense of urgency and integrity

Bonus points:

• Passion for and experience in e-learning projects is a strong bonus
• Ability to find creative solutions to interesting problems

About Us

Wellbeing & benefits

Your wellbeing matters to us. That’s why we offer benefits designed to help you recharge and thrive, including:

• Four weeks of paid vacation per year (that increases to five weeks after two years with the company!) plus two days off per year to volunteer at your favorite non-profit
• 3 days per year for professional development
• Access to our Benefits Hub, with many discounts and savings!
• Train subscription
• Relocation bonus
• Highly-skilled teammates and lots of opportunities for growth and development

Personal growth

Learning and opportunity is at the core of what we do - and that applies to you too!

You’ll have the unique opportunity to develop your skills on our QA authored courses in the latest tech (you’ll get 3 training days/year to do this). You can also delve deep into our world-class digital learning content on a variety of tech and business topics.

Our people

We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment. We embrace diversity, welcome applications from all candidates and aim to support the career growth of everyone. This means no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity, beliefs, or sexual orientation, or if you are disabled or a carer, we welcome you and the different perspectives you bring to our diverse family. We’re proud of the progress we’ve achieved over the last few years to build an inclusive culture and celebrate our diversity.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee that all applicants with a disability who meet the role criteria will progress to the next stage of the process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

A little about QA

At QA, we believe the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at pace and scale. As the largest tech training company in the UK and the fastest growing in the US, we partner with 96% of the FTSE and most of the Fortune 500. We have served over 4,000 customers and 1+ million learners in the last 3 years.

Our Mission

We teach the critical AI, technology, digital and Human skills needed to transform and succeed in a changing world.We do this through tailored learning programmes that connect learning across an organisation, create continuity for learners, and feature collaborative, cohort-based modalities to apply skills at pace and at scale. Our unique end-to-end learning solutions draw from deep expertise across Apprenticeships, Instructor-led training, Self-paced Learning and Blended Learning.

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