31.07.2025
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Senior Backend Engineer, Unity CMS

  • Workload: 100
  • Contract type: Full time
  • Model of Work: Hybrid
  • Start: 01.10.2025
Work Location
Werdstrasse 21, 8021 Zürich, Switzerland
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Alexandra Recruiting manager
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As part of Tamedia, a leading Swiss private media group, our team drives its digital transformation through innovative technology solutions. We develop the backend for UnityCMS – a mature, multi-tenant, cloud-based headless content management system that optimizes journalist workflows, including AI-assisted content creation. This critical system serves major Tamedia news brands like Tages-Anzeiger and Basler Zeitung, enabling hundreds of journalists to reach millions of readers daily. We foster interdisciplinary collaboration and seek a talented Senior Backend Engineer for our team in Zurich (hybrid).

Stefanos Teamlead Backend Development
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Stefanos Teamlead Backend Development
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What you can expect

  • Collaborate closely with our Product Owner, Unity Frontend team, and News Frontends teams in Zurich and Belgrade.

  • Be more than a code implementer—actively shape product direction by identifying opportunities to enhance the CMS and proposing impactful backend solutions.

  • Contribute to a team that analyzes, develops, and continuously learns from new technologies and requirements.

  • Utilize your senior expertise to iterate on architecture, leverage new backend technologies, and implement exciting features.

  • Proactively contribute ideas to continuously improve the product with each release.

  • Work with microservices and messaging concepts.

  • Develop in an environment focused on clean code and unit tests.

  • Build scalable backend applications using Spring Boot and Micronaut.

  • Mentor other engineers and value constructive feedback on your ideas.

We are looking for

  • You possess a deep technical passion and an intuitive understanding of designing elegant and robust system architectures.

  • You embrace the possibilities technology offers but also recognize when new technologies are not yet ready for prime time.

  • A degree from a technical university and at least 5 years of hands-on experience, learning from diverse challenges.

  • Passionate about software engineering with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, production-ready applications using Java, Spring/Micronaut, Hibernate, SQL, RabbitMQ, and ElasticSearch.

  • Stay current with new backend technologies to evolve architectural designs, and challenge the status quo.

  • Familiarity with Linux, GIT, Docker, and Kubernetes is a strong plus.

  • You’re curious about technology, different languages and tech stacks, and understand how full-system thinking improves backend decisions.

Benefits

What we offer: Attractive additional benefits and discounts for our employees

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  • Five weeks vacation with option for seven weeks and vacation purchase
  • Flexible working models and mobile office options
  • Paid day off on birthday
  • A market-, performance- and success-oriented compensation package
  • Numerous discounts e.g. cell phone subscription, digital TV, bicycle rental, car purchase
  • Wide range of free health promotion services (social counseling, health coach app, flu vaccination, various trainings)

Recruitment Process

From application to success: Our hiring process

    • Preselection

      We review our applications on an ongoing basis. To ensure a fast response time, we create a preliminary selection. The decision on advancement or departure from the recruitment process is done by the hiring manager and communicated via mail.

    • HR Interview

      In the first step of getting to know each other, we schedule a call between you and the responsible recruiter. This will either be a virtual or an in person interview. The goal of this step is getting a first impression of you as a person and your professional capabilities.

    • Technical Interview

      Here you will get to know your potential manager and/or colleagues. We will test specific knowledge relevant to the execution of the job. Depending on the situation, this will be either conducted virtually or in person. Also this step can be split into several smaller interviews.

    • On-site Iinterview

      Our on-site interview is all about building a connection and getting to know each other better. You'll have the chance to meet face-to-face with supervisors and team members, gain valuable insights into the position and get a feel for our workplace culture.

    • Offer & Contract

      If you completed all steps successfully, we will send you a digital offer in written form. If you also think that we are a good fit for you, you can accept the offer, and we will send you the contract and look forward to working with you.

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    About Tamedia

    Tamedia is a Swiss media company founded in 1893 with the Tages-Anzeiger. Today, the company includes the paid daily and Sunday newspapers, magazines and publishing services. Its best-known publications include 24 heures, Basler Zeitung, Bilan, BZ Berner Zeitung, Das Magazin, Der Bund, Finanz und Wirtschaft, Le Matin Dimanche, Schweizer Familie, SonntagsZeitung, Tages-Anzeiger and Tribune de Genève. Tamedia also operates Switzerland’s largest newspaper printing plants in Zurich and Berne. The company employs people in German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland.

    We do not accept unsolicited applications from external recruiters

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