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Senior Backend Engineer, Unity CMS

Tamedia Publikationen Deutschschweiz AG
Full-time
On-site
ZΓΌrich, Switzerland
Backend Development
As part of Tamedia, a leading Swiss private media group, our team drives its digital transformation through innovative technology solutions. We develop the backend for UnityCMS – a mature, multi-tenant, cloud-based headless content management system that optimizes journalist workflows, including AI-assisted content creation. This critical system serves major Tamedia news brands like Tages-Anzeiger and Basler Zeitung, enabling hundreds of journalists to reach millions of readers daily. We foster interdisciplinary collaboration and seek a talented Senior Backend Engineer for our team in Zurich (hybrid).

  • Collaborate closely with our Product Owner, Unity Frontend team, and News Frontends teams in Zurich and Belgrade.

  • Be more than a code implementerβ€”actively shape product direction by identifying opportunities to enhance the CMS and proposing impactful backend solutions.

  • Contribute to a team that analyzes, develops, and continuously learns from new technologies and requirements.

  • Utilize your senior expertise to iterate on architecture, leverage new backend technologies, and implement exciting features.

  • Proactively contribute ideas to continuously improve the product with each release.

  • Work with microservices and messaging concepts.

  • Develop in an environment focused on clean code and unit tests.

  • Build scalable backend applications using Spring Boot and Micronaut.

  • Mentor other engineers and value constructive feedback on your ideas.

  • You possess a deep technical passion and an intuitive understanding of designing elegant and robust system architectures.

  • You embrace the possibilities technology offers but also recognize when new technologies are not yet ready for prime time.

  • A degree from a technical university and at least 5 years of hands-on experience, learning from diverse challenges.

  • Passionate about software engineering with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, production-ready applications using Java, Spring/Micronaut, Hibernate, SQL, RabbitMQ, and ElasticSearch.

  • Stay current with new backend technologies to evolve architectural designs, and challenge the status quo.

  • Familiarity with Linux, GIT, Docker, and Kubernetes is a strong plus.

  • You’re curious about technology, different languages and tech stacks, and understand how full-system thinking improves backend decisions.