Frontify
Senior Backend Engineer (Media Delivery)
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · Sankt Gallen
Employer listed it 7 days ago · Found 4h ago
First listed 7 days ago and still open.
Salary
Not stated
Location
Hybrid · Sankt Gallen
Work style
Async
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Product
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Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around Sankt Gallen, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Sankt Gallen, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
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- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
Frontify is the brand platform behind some of the world's leading organizations, including Microsoft, Telefónica, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, and Kia. We help every team bring brands to life — with governance in one place, seamless workflows across the tools people already use, and a foundation that's ready for AI. We're driven by collaboration, curiosity, and the belief that great work can happen anywhere. What began in St. Gallen has grown to London, New York, and beyond. Wherever you join us, you'll take ownership from day one, shape work that reaches global brands, and help redefine how brands work in the age of AI.
Your Mission
Our team owns Frontify’s media delivery path end-to-end, the engine that processes and serves every image and video, at ~180 TB of traffic a month. We build it and run it: from bulk asset transformation and fast preview generation to the Kubernetes infrastructure and CDN caching it all runs on. Our mission: media processing and delivery that absorbs any customer’s spike without ever slowing another customer, at a cost we’re proud of. You will play a significant role in making this a reality and in solving the technical challenges along the way.
Your Responsibilities
You'll build and enhance our media transformation engine — resizing, format conversion, and video processing — built on FFmpeg and native libraries, mostly through our Node.js services and occasionally in the C++ core.
You'll design and operate our services on Kubernetes (EKS): Helm charts, deployments, alerts. And simplifying what's grown too complex.
You'll work on our async bulk-processing capabilities: job queues, autoscaling for spiky workloads, and fairness between customers.
You'll help keep the delivery path fast and cheap, working with our caching and CDN layer (Varnish, HAProxy, CloudFront).
You'll participate in code reviews and write things down — designs, decisions, and runbooks — so the team's knowledge lives in documents, not in heads.
Your Story
You have experience designing, building, and maintaining high-quality, scalable backend and background processing services (Node.js, TypeScript, Go, or similar).
You have operated your own services in production on Kubernetes — Helm, monitoring, debugging live systems — not just deployed once and walked away.
You possess solid experience with AWS architecture and infrastructure, particularly regarding performance optimisation and cost management for S3, CloudFront, Lambda functions, and ALB at scale.
You're comfortable in Docker and Linux, and can read, compile and debug native code (C++) when the engine misbehaves, but you don't need to be a C++ expert.
Experience with media pipelines — FFmpeg, codecs, image or video processing — is a big plus; HDR and video expertise especially so.
Frontify's product is largely PHP; our path is mostly C++ and Node.js with a couple of PHP components. You don't need to be a PHP developer — but reading it and fixing the occasional bug shouldn't put you off.
You speak English fluently.
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
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·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
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Frontify, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (Async).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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