
Senior Software Engineer – Backend Focused
gowago.ch
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Zürich • Switzerland
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About the role
- Engage early with designers, product managers, and stakeholders to shape product and UX requirements, helping guide the team toward the most effective solutions.
- Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test automation, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
- You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
- Nurture a culture of technical quality from design, through code review, to production operations.
- Work with TypeScript, NestJS, Postgres, NodeJS, Docker, AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, and various other services), ReactJS, Github, Claude Code
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience
- High proficiency in TypeScript
- Experience designing architecture and deployment of web applications & services
- Positive can-do attitude, passion to level-up those around you through curiosity and fostering a collaborative and inclusive team environment
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team and with teams across the engineering, product & design organizations (nice to have)
- Experience with AWS or another cloud provider (nice to have)
- Prepared to the occasional frontend contribution when helpful for the team (nice to have)
- Likes cars and is interested in the transportation and mobility of the future
Benefits
- Dynamic, open and positive environment, where you will have the opportunity to take end-to-end ownership of what you build
- 25 days of annual leave plus public holidays
- 30 days per year for telecommuting
- Opportunities for acquiring equity
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypeScriptNestJSPostgresNodeJSDockerAWSReactJStest automationtechnical designcode review
Soft Skills
collaborativeinclusivecommunicationcuriositypositive attitudeteamworkfeedbackpassion for mentoringnurturing technical qualityproblem-solving