Senior Backend Engineer, Unity CMS

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).

What you can expect

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

• Be more than a code implementer-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.

We are looking for

• 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.

Benefits:

• Five weeks vacation with option for seven weeks and vacation purchase
• Flexible working models and mobile office options
• Paid day off on birthday
• A market-, performance- and success-oriented compensation package
• Numerous discounts e.g. cell phone subscription, digital TV, bicycle rental, car purchase
• Wide range of free health promotion services (social counseling, health coach app, flu vaccination, various trainings)
• Possibility for unpaid vacation up to max. six months
• Additional half days off before certain holidays
• Referral program: Up to CHF 2'000 reward
• Wide training and development offering (leadership, mentoring, development programs, language courses, Sales Academy, self-competence, methodological competence, project management, change management and much more)
• Free digital subscriptions and discounted print offers