Software Engineer Backend at Futurae - Zurich, Switzerland

Job Description

About us

Futurae is a Swiss Cybersecurity company enabling users seamlessly authenticate to online, mobile, and smart home device applications. Security and Usability are at the heart of Futurae customer-centric innovations, and what we do, every day. Join our young, international, and fast-paced team with experienced industry leaders hard at work shaping the future of online authentication and transaction signing by solving some of its toughest challenges and at the same time creating outstanding user experiences. Futurae operates in financial services and insurances with increasing exposure in other industries. Visit our website at www.futurae.com to learn more about our solutions and team.

What you’ll do

Our product stack comprises of a number of different systems, from backend APIs to web components, SDKs and plugins. As a Software Engineer in our company, you will be working closely with our engineers as well as other internal teams in order to design, build and maintain the technologies and systems that comprise our platform, enabling its expansion and scale. At the same time, you will be also collaborating with our customers, helping them integrate our systems and APIs. In more detail, your responsibilities include:

• Design, engineer and operate the systems that comprise the stack of our platform
• Work with customers to facilitate the integration of our solutions and tailor them to their requirements
• Participate in the development cycle of our software stack
• Define, improve and (re)engineer DevOps tools and processes
• Help maintain high security standards of our platform and infrastructure
• Participate in technical support related to our platforms and integrations
• Participate in ²⁴⁄₇ on-call schedule to ensure high availability and performance of our systems

Requirements

Desirable skills and experience

You are comfortable making technical decisions and maintaining backend infrastructure and code, using modern technologies and best practices. You are willing to have ownership of what you build and you’d rather ship than over-engineer. You have good communication and collaboration skills and wish to work in a team with talented peers, teaming up to tackle new projects. You want to be a part of building something you can be proud of.

• 4+ years of experience in building and maintaining software systems
• Experience with Linux systems and cloud infrastructure
• Understanding and experience on technologies like Docker, Puppet, Git, Go, Ruby
• Understanding of computer and network security concepts and best practices for securing software systems and infrastructure
• Enjoy interacting with customer peers, both remotely and on-site, in order to support and help them integrate APIs/systems
• Fluent in English

Bonus points

• Experience with DevOps practices such as CI/CD, an appreciation and understanding of unit and integration testing
• Experience with other major programming frameworks (e.g. Rails, .NET, Java, Vue.js, Node.js)
• Fluent in German

Benefits

What we offer

• Join a young, international, and fast-paced Cybersecurity company with experienced industry leaders
• Work at the forefront of an inspiring, dynamic Fintech company in the B2B space in the area of end-user authentication
• Be part of our friendly, knowledge-sharing, entrepreneurial culture and flat hierarchy
• Work in a role that lets you learn and gives you responsibility and independence
• Ability to work in Switzerland or Greece
• Books and opportunities to attend conferences

Sounds like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

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