Senior Backend Engineer (Media Delivery)
Frontify · Saint-Gall
Description du poste
About the role
Frontify is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to own and evolve its media delivery platform, handling massive image and video traffic. You will work on a high‑scale system that processes, transforms, and serves media for global brands.
Key responsibilities
- Build and enhance the media transformation engine (resizing, format conversion, video processing) using FFmpeg, Node.js services and C++ core.
- Design, deploy and operate services on Kubernetes (EKS) with Helm charts, monitoring, alerts and simplification of complex setups.
- Develop async bulk‑processing capabilities, including job queues, autoscaling for spiky workloads and fairness between customers.
- Optimize delivery performance and cost by working with caching and CDN layers (Varnish, HAProxy, CloudFront).
- Participate in code reviews and document designs, decisions and runbooks.
Required profile
- Proven experience designing, building and maintaining scalable backend and background processing services (Node.js, TypeScript, Go or similar).
- Hands‑on operation of production services on Kubernetes with Helm, monitoring and live debugging.
- Strong knowledge of AWS architecture and cost‑optimisation for S3, CloudFront, Lambda and ALB at scale.
- Comfortable with Docker, Linux and debugging native C++ code when needed.
- Fluent English communication skills.
Required skills
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Go (or similar language)
- Kubernetes (EKS) & Helm
- AWS (S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ALB)
- Docker & Linux
- C++ (basic debugging)
- FFmpeg and media processing pipelines
- Varnish, HAProxy
What we offer
- Minimum 25 days annual leave
- Parental, family care and bereavement leave
- Daily sickness benefits and accident insurance
- Paid educational and wellbeing days
- Wellbeing, learning, development and commuter allowance
- Home office setup budget
- Pension contributions (60% employer, 40% employee)
- Exclusive perks and discounts from top brands
- Workation option up to 45 days per year
- Summer company meet‑up invitation
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