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Smallpdf is the most-loved and most trusted PDF software on the planet. We serve over 500 million users in 24 different languages processing millions of documents per day, and in every country in the world—even Antarctica! To deliver a product that users love, we solve complex technical problems at scale using cloud-native and open source technologies.
As one of the most successful startups in Switzerland, with staff from all over the world, we're on a mission to make PDF easy. We love open-source and using the latest technologies to scale our distributed application to process millions of files every day.
💁♂️ About the Contract Management Team:
The Contract Management team aims to streamline and automate routine contracts of business customers so they can stay on top of their legal and financial needs with no hassle. This team is responsible to enable our users to manage the lifecycle of their contracts from the creation to the execution, archiving, and renewal while ensuring the highest level of security and legality. We are a highly engaged, hands-on team that values ideas and collaboration.
As a Backend engineer in our team, you'll contribute to solving challenges tackling digital signatures and advanced file management for our users.
What you will do:
Design and build systems at scale, which will be used by millions of people every day
Work on most impactful changes, researched and prioritized by the team to make sure we are focusing on the right things
Collaborate with other team members by challenging ideas, brainstorming, and having discussions to get to the best solutions.
Responsibilities:
Take ownership of one of the services that power our product for millions of users
Ensure the scalability and reliability of services from top to bottom.
Build simple, loosely coupled, composable, and reliable software
Architect and develop infrastructure to mitigate scalability, security, and reliability risks.
Mentor and grow a community of backend engineers to contribute to Smallpdf
Our Stack:
Golang
AWS
Docker
Ansible
Terraform
Discover more of our stack on Stackshare
Requirements:
3+ years of experience in backend software development.
Expertise with at least one of the following languages, or equivalent: Golang, Java, Kotlin, C#, C, C++, Python.
Ability to quickly pick up new technologies. We use Golang as our language of choice for backend services.
Experience scaling (micro-) web services to millions of users.
Can excel independently and have a sense of ownership of your own work.
Fluent English.
Based in Zurich or willing to relocate (this is an on-site role).
Swiss or EU passport holder (or other permits that allow you to work in Switzerland).
Nice to have:
Experience with Golang.
Experience with AWS.
Experience with high traffic backend services.
Benefits:
The opportunity to impact a successful, growing scale-up and its tools used by millions worldwide.
We are remote-work friendly (we prioritize a healthy work-life balance).
Work in small, highly motivated, cross-functional teams that push boundaries.
A dedicated annual budget and time off for personal development
Enjoy company events in the Swiss Alps, on Lake Zurich, or even further afield.
After-work events include BBQs, cinema, game nights, meet-ups, and more.
Learn German with our free German language course.
Hack days to challenge yourself and the team.
Unlimited free coffee and drinks.
Weekly team lunch on the house.
Brand new offices in the heart of Zurich.
Rated by Forbes as one of the top 10 cities in the world for work-life balance, Zurich is the place to work for anyone who wants more out of life. From chocolate, cheese, and Rӧsti to snow-capped mountains, haute couture, Swiss-made watches, and outstanding public transport, whatever it is that makes your heart beat faster, it’s all right here in Switzerland—and so is Smallpdf.
Smallpdf is an equal opportunity employer. We believe a talented, diverse, and inclusive workforce is our greatest strength. We strongly oppose any form of hiring or workplace discrimination against candidates or employees on any basis, including race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, philosophy, nationality, disability, or genetic information. We’re committed to fostering a safe, supportive environment where everyone can come to work as their full selves and reach their greatest potential.
By sending your application, you allow Smallpdf to handle and store your data.
Smallpdf does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between Smallpdf and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.
Founded in Switzerland in 2013, Smallpdf provides a simple, secure, and reliable answer to common frustrating PDF problems, and has become the most-loved and most trusted PDF software on the planet. We serve over 500 million users in 24 different languages, and in every country in the world—even Antarctica!
As one of the most successful startups in Switzerland, with staff from all over the world, we’re on a mission to make PDF easy. We love open-source and using the latest technologies to scale our distributed application to process millions of files every day.
If you are a passionate engineer with extensive experience working with Golang and AWS and would be interested in working on a product loved and used by 40+ million monthly active users, this job is for you!
💁♂️ About the Growth Team
At Smallpdf, we work in pods, which are autonomous and cross-functional teams within the company.
You would be working in the Growth pod. Our goal is to maximize the value of Smallpdf for our millions of users and help them become as productive as possible.
In more practical terms, we...
Collaborate together to plan, execute, and analyze experiments to drive activation, engagement, and ultimately—growth!
Make sure users find what they are looking for to get their work done
Help users discover and unlock 'superpowers' on our platforms
Build and maintain a stable and reliable payment infrastructure
What you will do:
Design and build systems at scale, which will be used by millions of people every day
Work on most impactful changes, researched and prioritized by the team to make sure we are focusing on the right things
Collaborate with other team members by challenging ideas, brainstorming, and having discussions to get to the best solutions.
Responsibilities:
Build and maintain critical components in our payment system
Ensure the scalability and reliability of services from top to bottom
Architect and develop infrastructure to mitigate scalability, security, and reliability risks
Mentor and grow a community of backend engineers to contribute to Smallpdf
We use the latest technologies, including:
Golang
AWS
Docker
Ansible
Terraform
Full stack on Stackshare
Requirements
3+ years of experience in backend software development.
Expertise with at least one of the following languages, or equivalent: Golang, Java, Kotlin, C#, C, C++, Python.
Ability to quickly pick up new technologies. We use Golang as our language of choice for backend services.
Can excel independently and have a sense of ownership of your own work.
Fluent English.
Based in Zurich or willing to relocate (this is an on-site role).
Swiss or EU passport holder (or other permits that allow you to work in Switzerland).
Nice to have:
* Experience with Golang.
* Experience with Subscription & Payment Management Systems.
* Experience with AWS.
Benefits:
The opportunity to impact a successful, growing scale-up and its tools used by millions worldwide.
We are remote-work friendly (we prioritize a healthy work-life balance).
Work in small, highly motivated, cross-functional teams that push boundaries.
A dedicated annual budget and time off for personal development
Enjoy company events in the Swiss Alps, on Lake Zurich, or even further afield.
After-work events include BBQs, cinema, game nights, meet-ups, and more.
Learn German with our free German language course.
Hack days to challenge yourself and the team.
Unlimited free coffee and drinks.
Weekly team lunch on the house.
Brand new offices in the heart of Zurich.
Rated by Forbes as one of the top 10 cities in the world for work-life balance, Zurich is the place to work for anyone who wants more out of life. From chocolate, cheese, and Rӧsti to snow-capped mountains, haute couture, Swiss-made watches, and outstanding public transport, whatever it is that makes your heart beat faster, it’s all right here in Switzerland—and so is Smallpdf.
Smallpdf is an equal opportunity employer. We believe a talented, diverse, and inclusive workforce is our greatest strength. We strongly oppose any form of hiring or workplace discrimination against candidates or employees on any basis, including race, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, philosophy, nationality, disability, or genetic information. We’re committed to fostering a safe, supportive environment where everyone can come to work as their full selves and reach their greatest potential.
By sending your application, you allow Smallpdf to handle and store your data.
Smallpdf does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between Smallpdf and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.
Generalist Software Engineer Fotokite Zurich, Switzerland Fr60,000 to Fr120,000 a year
January 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Fotokite is a fast-paced, growing company specializing in aerial robotics. To continue pushing the boundaries of situational awareness tools in firefighting and first responder markets, we are seeking software engineers to help with internal and customer-facing software development.
We are looking to expand the team with generalist software engineers that bring dedication and fresh ideas in the areas of web development, cloud computing, system/network engineering, and data pipelines / data science. Our culture values versatile engineers that are willing to show initiative and tackle problems across the full stack.
Responsibilities
Design and implement real-time video streaming infrastructure at the core of our situational awareness system
Maintain and improve our data collection and processing infrastructure
Implement novel UIs to simplify the work of firefighters
Enhance our simulated and physical testing framework to provide a reliable product to our customers
Provide code review and guidance in your areas of expertise
Collaborate with other teams such as embedded, flight control, UI/UX
Requirements
Good understanding of networking principles
Solid knowledge of Linux
Experience building applications using Javascript, Python, Go, C++ or related languages
Experience with 1 or more of the following:
Web development / React
Video streaming technologies (RTP and similar)
Real time low latency networking protocols (websockets, webRTC)
Abstractions typical of the major cloud providers (GCP, AWS)
Single board computers (ARM based)
Fleet automation / orchestration
Embedded Linux (yocto, buildroot)
Package management and distribution
Network routing
Fotokite is hiring for full or part time positions, both entry and senior level, onsite at our HQ at Zurich, Switzerland.
We are looking forward to your CV (English only, please)!
Senior Golang Engineer Smallpdf Zurich, Switzerland Fr84 to Fr108 a year
August 2020
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Description
Founded in Switzerland in 2013, Smallpdf provides a simple, secure, and reliable answer to heavy, awkward PDF software, and has become the most-loved and most-trusted PDF software on the planet. We serve over 500 million users in 24 different languages, and in every country in the world—even Antarctica!
As one of the most successful startups in Switzerland, with 52 staff of 18 different nationalities, we’re on a mission to make PDF easy. We love open-source and using the latest technologies to scale our distributed application to process millions of files every day.
As a Backend Engineer at Smallpdf, you will not only contribute to our backend, but also to our infrastructure and tooling. You will work in a cross-functional development team that includes experienced frontend engineers and designers.
Manage and automate our infrastructure that spans across more than 100 machines
Analyze and monitor our application to spot problems
Help designing our architecture
Requirements
Golang experience
Work independently and take responsibility and ownership of your work
Ability to quickly learn new technologies
3+ years of experience with software development
Good programming skills
Good knowledge of Linux
Fluent in English (German is useful, but not necessary)
Full-time position
Permanently based in Zurich (or willing to move)
Swiss or EU passport holder (or other permit that allows you to work in Switzerland)
100% on-site role
Nice to Have:
Experience with DevOps tools such as:
Docker
Ansible
Terraform
Experience scaling (micro-) webservices to millions of users
Experience with AWS
Benefits
The opportunity to impact a successful, growing scale-up and its tools used by millions worldwide.
Work in small, highly-motivated, cross-functional teams that push boundaries.
Enjoy company events in the Swiss Alps, on Lake Zurich, or even further afield.
After-work events include BBQs, cinema, game nights, meet-ups, and more.
Learn German with our free German language course.
Hack days to challenge yourself and the team.
Unlimited free coffee and drinks.
Weekly team lunch on the house.
Brand new offices in the heart of Zurich.
Rated by Forbes as one of the top 10 cities in the world for work-life balance, Zurich is the place to work for anyone who wants more out of life. From chocolate, cheese, and rӧsti to snow-capped mountains, haute couture, Swiss-made watches, and outstanding public transport, whatever it is that makes your heart beat faster, it’s all right here in Switzerland—and so is Smallpdf.
By sending your application you allow Smallpdf to handle and store your data.
Smallpdf does not seek or accept unsolicited resumes or CVs from recruitment agencies. We are not responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions, or any other payment related to unsolicited resumes or CVs except as required in a written contract between Smallpdf and the recruitment agency or party requesting payment of a fee.
Backend Engineer (Golang) Smallpdf Zurich, Switzerland Fr84,000 to Fr108,000 a year
July 2019
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Smallpdf is the most used online PDF software and belongs to the 500 most visited website worldwide. The 5-year-old company is one of the most recognized and awarded startups in Switzerland and has the ambition to simplify the life of its customers.
As a senior team full of passion for design, engineering, and business we create remarkable user experiences. Join our cross-functional team and have a direct impact on how over 20 million users worldwide work with documents.
We love open-source and using the latest technologies to scale our distributed application to process millions of files every day. As a backend engineer at Smallpdf, you will not only contribute to our backend but also to our infrastructure and tooling. You will work in a cross-functional development team that includes experienced frontend engineers and designers.