Lausanne, Switzerland Hybrid Employment

Nexthink is hiring a Senior Software Backend Engineer

About the Role

The position involves developing and optimizing backend services to ensure robustness, scalability, and low-latency performance across distributed systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable backend services
  • Optimize systems for high availability and low latency
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on feature development
  • Maintain and improve existing codebases
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
  • Participate in code reviews and system design discussions
  • Ensure backend systems meet security and compliance standards
  • Work with large-scale data processing pipelines
  • Support deployment and monitoring of services
  • Contribute to API design and documentation
  • Improve system observability and monitoring tools
  • Integrate with internal and external platforms
  • Write automated tests for backend components
  • Refactor legacy systems for better maintainability
  • Assist in capacity planning and performance tuning
  • Evaluate and adopt new technologies when appropriate
  • Follow software development best practices
  • Mentor junior engineers
  • Participate in incident response and on-call rotations
  • Ensure code quality through testing and static analysis
  • Support continuous integration and delivery pipelines
  • Collaborate on architectural decisions
  • Maintain system documentation
  • Respond to feedback from support and QA teams
  • Drive improvements in system reliability

Nice to Have

  • Experience with large-scale data platforms
  • Familiarity with observability tooling
  • Knowledge of gRPC and Protocol Buffers
  • Experience with service mesh technologies
  • Background in performance engineering
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Experience in SaaS environments
  • Prior work with real-time analytics systems

Compensation

Competitive salary with performance-based incentives

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexible remote options

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on scalable systems

Why Join Us

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure challenges
  • Culture that values technical excellence and innovation
  • Support for professional growth and learning
  • Inclusive environment that encourages diverse perspectives
  • Access to modern tools and technologies

What We Offer

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote work support
  • Annual learning and development allowance

Available for qualified candidates

About company
Nexthink
Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue.
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Job Details
Department Data Platform
Category backend
Posted a month ago