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Backend Engineer - Developer Experience

Frontify is a cloud-based brand management platform that helps businesses create and maintain consistent brand experiences across all channels by centralizing brand guidelines, digital assets, and creative collaboration.

Frontify

Employee count: 201-500

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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 Backend Engineer working in the Developer Experience team, you’ll take on a challenging role in collaborating with product managers, stakeholders, and fellow engineers to build and optimize a dynamic, scalable, and high-impact platform.
Our team takes pride in creating seamless user experiences while ensuring the underlying systems are efficient, robust, and extendable. You'll contribute to architectural decisions, and drive technical excellence across the stack with emphasis on the Backend at scale.
You'll contribute to the evolution of our platform, ensuring efficient data structures, clear API interfaces, building and evolving developer tools and framework, supporting platform extensibility and scale third-party integrations.
Your work will encompass API design and implementation, ensuring high-quality code with well-defined testing strategies and having a scalability mindset. Your expertise in API design, scalability and understanding of public facing interfaces will be instrumental in enhancing our platform’s reliability and extensibility.

Your responsibilities

  • You will work with an experienced team to design, develop and implement hyperscaling solutions to third party systems, increasing the extensibility of our systems and supporting external developers through great documentation.
  • You will build and refine API interfaces and service communications, ensuring clarity, scalability, and adaptability.
  • You’ll collaborate across teams to create efficient contracts and interfaces, leveraging your generalist mindset to approach varied challenges when supporting external developers.
  • You will maintain and enhance existing solutions, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
  • You will partner closely with product management, design, and engineering toward viable product development changes from discovery to delivery.
  • You’ll coach and mentor fellow engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Your story

  • You can work remotely from anywhere in Switzerland or on-site in our St. Gallen office – or even mix it up during the week! Choose where to work from that works best for you.
  • 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’re an expert in PHP whilst being skilled in architecting/designing, developing, and maintaining large software solutions.
  • You have experience building a product where developers are your customers - you understand their problems and needs, and know how to design solutions for those.
  • You are familiar with how to build software end to end with a firm understanding of the frontend with exposure to React.
  • You're skilled in writing unit and integration tests, with a solid grasp of error handling, logging, and observability.
  • You have experience in contract and interface definition, ensuring consistent and maintainable code.
  • 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.
We understand that every candidate’s experience is different. If you’re interested in this role but don’t tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

Why join us?

- Thrive with the tools and support to shape your future at Frontify.- Be part of a product that connects brands and people with a human touch.
- Enjoy flexibility, opportunities to grow, and exposure to innovative technologies and ideas.
- Join a vibrant, social team—whether you love animals, yoga, or travel, we’ve got the Slack channels for you!

What we offer

- A minimum of 25 days annual leave per year
- Parental, family care, and bereavement leave
- Daily sickness benefits and accident insurance
- Paid educational and wellbeing days off
- Wellbeing, learning and development, and commuter allowance
- Home office setup budget
- Pension fund: contributions paid 60% by us and 40% by you
- Access to exclusive perks and discounts from hundreds of top brands
- Workation: Work from inspiring locations around the world for up to 45 days per year!
- Invite to our summer company meet-up

Important to us

Frontify is a place where authenticity and inclusion thrive, empowering every voice to help shape our future.
We’re committed to an inclusive hiring experience. If you need any support or adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact jobs@frontify.com or let your talent partner know when scheduling. Any information shared will be treated confidentially.

Next steps

If there’s a fit, you’ll meet our Talent Partner to discuss your experience and explore whether Frontify is the right place for you.
This description outlines the primary duties of the role, which may evolve in response to business needs and company growth. We’re looking for someone comfortable with change and excited to contribute to a dynamic environment. If this sounds like you, come join us and help shape what’s next.
We may conduct preliminary checks for successful candidates, depending on the role and in line with local laws. We’ll share all relevant details during the interview process.

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Frontify addresses the common challenge many businesses face: maintaining brand consistency and efficiency across all teams and touchpoints. In today's fast-paced digital world, customers interact with brands across numerous channels, and any inconsistency in messaging, visuals, or tone can dilute brand impact and erode trust. Many organizations struggle with scattered brand assets, outdated guidelines, and a lack of collaboration between creative, marketing, and development teams. This often leads to off-brand communications, wasted resources on recreating assets, and a slower time-to-market for campaigns and product launches. Customers need a centralized, accessible, and user-friendly solution to manage their brand effectively, ensuring that everyone, from internal employees to external agencies, is aligned and equipped to represent the brand accurately.

Frontify provides a comprehensive cloud-based brand management platform designed to solve these critical issues. Our customers benefit from a single source of truth where they can define their brand’s core with dynamic brand guidelines, centralize all digital assets in a user-friendly Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, and build robust design systems for digital efficiency. The platform also offers customizable templates, enabling teams to create on-brand marketing collateral quickly and easily, even without design expertise. By fostering creative collaboration through streamlined workflows and project spaces, Frontify empowers teams to work together seamlessly, get approvals faster, and ensure that every piece of content accurately reflects the brand. This not only boosts internal brand engagement and commitment but also helps our customers deliver powerful, consistent brand experiences that resonate with their audience and drive business growth. Global brands like Uber, Microsoft, and Lufthansa trust Frontify to keep their brand identity strong and coherent across all interactions.

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