Senior Backend Engineer

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Caplena is an award‑winning Swiss tech start‑up. It is the AI tool to extract insights from feedback, wherever it may come from – helping customers to get from texts to real insights, with ease and in no time. Caplena's vision is to become the single place of truth for feedback, where customer‑centric companies go to understand the needs, wishes and pain points of their customers.

We’re looking for curious minds who are eager to write world‑class software. You will become an integral part of our hands‑on & fun team (25 people) and have a big impact on the future development of our software. We are fast‑growing 🚀 with close to 200+ active customers in more than 16+ countries across a multitude of industries, including big names such as Lufthansa, Kia and DHL.

• Develop new features (e.g. integrations with other apps, new internal & public API endpoints)
• Enable our application to discover interesting trends and statistics in our data
• Infuse AI into every part of our app (it’s already in many places of‑course)
• Improve our agent and chatbot
• Improve performance of endpoints (we’re dealing with 1M row queries 🏋🏾)
• Fix bugs 🪲 – which of course never happens

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, related field or equivalent practical experience
• At least 2 years of professional experience in building backend systems with Python and solid knowledge of SQL databases
• First experience building applications that leverage GenAI
• Solid foundations in Data Science and statistics
• Strong analytical skills and knowledge of data structure and algorithms
• Familiarity with web APIs (mostly REST)
• Performance issues are challenges you indulge in, not something you dread
• Track record of getting features shipped for customer‑facing applications
• Solid written communication in English;
  German not required but a plus
• Located in an EU country or Switzerland
• Fast learner, with a resourceful and independent mindset
• Upbeat team player

• You have knowledge of Django and / or Django Ninja
• Some experience with Kubernetes
• Cloud Dev Ops exposure (we’re on GCP)
• Experience with Click House is a plus
• Exciting, growing product 🔥
• Solid tooling (CI/CD; issue monitoring; session replay etc.)
• Driven & down‑to‑earth team
• Office near Zurich HB (easy to access by public transport, and we have great coffee!)
• Team events
• Choice of OS: macOS or Linux
• Full‑time; flexible working hours; remote or office depending on location
• 25 days PTO/year
• Competitive compensation & equity

If you’re looking for a place to apply and refine your programming skills on a cutting‑edge product, then join us 👋.

Start date:

Immediately or according to availability.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Software Development