Frontify

Senior Backend Engineer - Media Delivery

Frontify • CH
TypeScript Hybrid/Remote
We're all about helping brands turn ideas into impact.

Frontify’s brand platform transforms how teams organize digital assets, collaborate on projects, and create engaging campaigns. Our people empower thousands of marketers and designers — including teams at Uber, Microsoft, Volkswagen, and Telefónica — to build engaging brands.

With headquarters in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and offices in London and New York City, we share a vibrant culture built on creativity, collaboration, inclusion, and joy. And we’re on the lookout for new team members to share our vision. If you’re ready for a brand-new adventure, keep reading!

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

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Media Delivery team, you’ll take on a challenging role in collaborating with product managers and fellow engineers to build and optimize a dynamic, scalable, and high-performance platform.

Our team takes pride in creating seamless user experiences while ensuring the underlying systems are efficient, robust, and observable. You'll contribute to architectural decisions, and drive technical excellence across the stack with emphasis on the backend.

You'll contribute to the evolution of our platform, ensuring efficient data structures, optimized access/transaction handling and seamless web communication. 

Your work will encompass API design and implementation, optimizing backend and frontend performance and ensuring high-quality code with well-defined testing strategies. Your expertise in cloud storage, caching strategies and observability will be instrumental in enhancing our platform’s reliability and scalability.

Your responsibilities

  • Work with an experienced team to design, develop and implement media delivery solutions that encompass CDN, API, UI and media processing/transformation.
  • Build and refine API interfaces and service communications, ensuring clarity, scalability, and adaptability.
  • Collaborate across teams to create efficient contracts and interfaces, leveraging your generalist mindset to approach varied challenges in media distribution.
  • Develop and enhance frontend components to support media-centric use cases and work on a diversified tech stack.
  • Your story

  • You can work remotely from anywhere in Switzerland or join us on-site in our St. Gallen office, with the flexibility to choose your best work environment.
  • You have a strong background and interest in backend development with PHP, MySQL and apply DDD principles to your work process.
  • You have previous experience with React and TypeScript, ideally with exposure to the broader React ecosystem or you’re eager to learn and develop in these areas.
  • You have a deep understanding of API design, including RESTful, GraphQL and best practices/principles for structuring efficient, secure, scalable and maintainable APIs as well as networking and web application layer protocols.
  • You understand and apply best practices in CDN usage and maintenance, cloud storage, caching, and scalable architecture.
  • You have experience in contract and interface definition, ensuring consistent and maintainable code.
  • You're skilled in writing unit and integration tests, with a solid grasp of error handling, logging, and observability.
  • You’re familiar with testing frameworks and have a deep understanding of component composition, reusability, accessibility, maintainability and performance best practices.
  • You thrive in a collaborative and growing environment, embracing feedback and continuous improvement.