Your new company
A lot has changed at Frontify over the last decade, but people continue to be at the heart of our vision.
Every day, we empower thousands of brand builders worldwide — including teams at Lufthansa, KIA, Vodafone, and Uber — to create brands that have an impact. Our more than 300 employees collaborate and engage in and around our headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and offices in London and New York City. And we’re looking for new team members to join us.
We’re built on a collaborative culture of experimentation, trust, and transparency. If you want to help us achieve our mission of creating a home where brands can thrive, read on.
Your team
Your new team is a group of motivated, collaborative, and innovative Engineers. Working on-site, hybrid, or fully remote, they come together to create and evolve a well-loved product but always keep room for new ideas and approaches. Outside of work, they’re parents, gamers, bookworms, adrenaline junkies, and so much more.
Your mission
You will join our mission to make Frontify a place for all brands to thrive. By building and enhancing the platform used by many of your favorite brands, you will take our brand and digital asset management tools to new heights.
You will be part of our Backend Platform team, who's main goal is to provide a compelling set of essential tools, services and foundations for our product teams to build upon. You will be responsible for extending, modernizing and scaling new or existing backend services, with a focus on reliability, security and performance. Every team in our organization relies on the capabilities that the Backend Platform team provides, so your role will be crucial in helping Frontify to achieve its mission.
Your responsibilities
- You'll become a key member of a dedicated team focused on providing essential tools, services, and foundations for product teams.
- You'll take responsibility for enhancing and updating both new and existing backend services to ensure they meet current standards and organizational needs.
- You'll implement strategies to scale services effectively, optimizing for reliability and performance to support the demands of various product teams.
- You prioritize the reliability and security of backend services, ensuring they operate seamlessly and protect organizational data.
- You recognize the crucial role of the Backend Platform team in enabling all teams within the organization to achieve their objectives, contributing to Frontify's overall mission.
Your Story
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You can work remotely from anywhere in Switzerland or on-site in our St. Gallen office – or even mix it up during the week! Work from where you feel most productive and comfortable
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- You are comfortable using PHP8+ and TypeScript and have enough familiarity with technologies such as GraphQL, REST, MySQL, Docker and AWS.
- You have professional experience in developing, scaling and maintaining large software solutions.
- You are an expert in modern software development practices, such as continuous delivery, test automation, observability and static code analysis.
- You are not afraid to dive into legacy code and improve it when necessary. But you are also able to design and implement new features from scratch in a performant and maintainable way.
- You can get things done and are not afraid to take ownership of your work.
- You can communicate fluently in English.
Why join us?
· We want to see you thrive; we’ll provide you the tools to shape your place and future at Frontify.
· We have a product that helps to connect brands and people with a human element.
· We offer you the chance to enjoy your work, offering flexibility, opportunity, and exposure to new technologies and ideas.
· We are a social bunch so if you are an animal lover, a student of yoga, or love travel, we have all the slack channels you need!
What we offer
· We encourage you to take at least 5 weeks of holiday
· Budget for home office set-up
· Biannual salary review
· Additional localized benefits
· Invite to our annual, summer company meet-up
Important to us
At Frontify, we believe in being true to ourselves: We are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment of vibrant individuals whose diverse perspectives build our collective future. We aim to provide equal opportunities and nurture a workplace free of harassment and discrimination.
Next steps
1) Send us your CV and answer some questions: You’ll hear back from us with updates on your application.
2) Virtual call with the Recruiter: You'll meet the Talent team to discuss Frontify, the role, and you – your passions, your skills, you.
3) Virtually meet the team: You'll meet your new team over a few calls. You'll discuss the role, showcase your skills through your answers or a case study (or both), and get a feel for the brand-new journey that's awaiting you.
4) Join us: If all goes well, you'll join Frontify's journey soon.
We also wanted to let you know that we may run preliminary checks on successful candidates. In the instance we run a preliminary check, it will depend on the role you are applying for and will be done in accordance with the applicable law of the country of employment. We’ll provide you with all the details about the next steps during the interview process
