Back-end Software Engineer

ALTEN Group

Within 30 years, ALTEN has become leader in both outsourced Engineering and IT Enterprise Services. ALTEN, composed of 54,000 employees (88% engineers), carries out complex and highly technical projects throughout the value chain of 6,500 clients, the most prestigious companies in all sectors of industry, services and telecommunications. We work with key actors in the Aeronautics & Space, Defence & Naval, Security, Automotive, Rail, Energy, Life Sciences, Finance, Retail, Telecommunications and Services sectors.

ALTEN Switzerland

Since 2005, with 450 current employees, ALTEN Switzerland is a reference partner in providing Engineering services to 100 world leading companies. ALTEN Switzerland’s activities cover all the main strategical areas of the Swiss market in Life Sciences, Engineering & IT Services.

Main responsibilities

• You breakdown problems by federating all parties, propose solution design, integrate feedback from reviews, deliver features, tests and deployment steps.
• You pro-actively look after the resilience and stability of the platform.
• You are part of the support team responsible to answer and address customer requests and incident reports.
• You are comfortable working asynchronously with your team who is mostly remote.
• You provide realistic estimations for software development activities and ensure progress and changes of plans are properly communicated to the team.
• You review designs and code of other team members, reducing complexity and fostering continuous learning.
• You create and maintain the technical documentation (software requirements specification, detail design, test cases, traceability, architecture documentation).
• You are an advocate within the company and with our customers for good back-end development practices.

Main requirements

• Fluent written and spoken English
• You have a degree in Computer Science (MsC) or equivalent
• You have experience working on large and complex code base
• You have extensive experience writing clean, simple and tested code with a statically typed language
• You have a good knowledge of relational databases
• You contribute code in small Pull Requests
• You are eager to learn about the unmanned air traffic management domain
• You have experience using Docker and/or Kubernetes or similar container orchestration technology
• You have good communication skills
• You are curious, aware of technological trends, and have aptitude for self-training
• You are comfortable working asynchronously with other teammates.

What we offer you

At Alten, we offer you the security of a permanent contract while also giving you the liberty to work with multiple prestigious clients. With the luxury of having a wide range of offices around the world, we are in a unique position to provide you with the freedom to experience national and international business opportunities. Thus, we function in a highly innovative market, always being up to date with the latest technologies and making you a pioneer in your field.

Therefore, we offer our employees sought-after trainings and workshops ranging from hard to soft skills and providing you with certificates that will further increase your qualifications, enabling you to participate in ground-breaking projects.

Apply now and be a part of our amazing journey. We believe in growing together!