Senior Backend Developer

We are currently looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join our VIU team.

VIU are an up-and-coming and innovative Swiss eyewear label that is revolutionizing the market for designer eyewear by offering high quality and sustainable products at fair prices.

Our glasses are designed in Zurich by the VIU design team and handcrafted in Italy and Japan. With more than 50 flagship stores, over 40 partner stores, a strong online store and a growing customer base in Switzerland, Germany, & Austria, we are now looking for you so that you can move mountains with us and help us grow even more.

Challenging things you’ll be working on:

• Working on the customer facing side of the ERP migration project
• Working on our business process solution based on Prestashop
• Maintaining and developing an in-house CMS
• Working in close collaboration with our Product Owner, and the rest of the engineering team to find the sweet spot between perfection and time-to-market
• Help shaping the future customer facing VIU tech
• Be part of optimizing and defining user stories and functionalities
• Thinking about, proposing and implementing newest BE & software engineering trends
• Writing efficient, simple and performance minded code
• Work in sprints with the agile mindset
• Working with teams in Zurich, Munich, Bergamo and Belgrade

Your contribution to the team includes:

• Strong knowledge of PHP – vanilla & Symfony3
• Wish to explore & use functional languages – specifically Elixir
• Critical thinking, readiness to challenge the status quo
• Experience in working with ci/cd, code repository tools such as git
• Willingness to learn
• Good spoken and written English skills

Nice to have, but not necessary:

• Experience in functional languages or principles of functional programming
• Experience working with a Microsoft Business Central Dynamics 365 / MS NAV ERP

Technologies that we’re using: 

• PHP7
• Elixir
• Javascript, Typescript
• NodeJS
• VueJS 2
• Github
• Gitlab
• Docker
• Jenkins
• AWS
• JIRA
• Confluence
• Slack

Why you will love working here:

• Free glasses and discounts
• 28 days of vacation, 29 after 2 years, 30 after 3 years
• Become part of a highly motivated and international team that pushes boundaries
• Personally impact a successful & rapidly growing startup
• Work in small teams that have direct impact on tools that are used by million of users
• High-growth company in which you can find exciting and trend-setting challenges
• Familial working atmosphere in an open-minded multinational team
• All necessary equipment – up to you to decide what you prefer
• A budget for professional improvement (courses, conferences, books…)
• Budget for the mastery of the English language during the working hours

Deadline for applications: 21.09.2021.