DirecciónJoin the team responsible for Proton Pass and SimpleLogin. This role focuses on the backend side of those products, but the team can give a helping hand to the frontend teams.
What you will do :
- Code in our shared backend framework
- Work closely with a group of Back-End Engineers and Architects to build resilient, massively-scalable solutions for millions of people to rely on
- Collaborate with teams of client application developers to ensure that the back-end meets critical business and reliability requirements
- Document back-end capabilities and their proper use so that all Proton clients can implement correctly-functioning solutions
- Improve vital systems such as the systems responsible for cleaning up file revisions and returning quota to users
Job requirements :
- Strong experience with backend development
- Experience building scalable solutions
- Fluent with OOP and SOLID
- Fluent with at least one strongly typed language
- Solid understanding of SQL (MySQL preferred) and data modelling
- Knowledgeable about unit and functional testing
- Solid understanding of security best practices
- Solid understanding of HTTP / REST, including both developing and consuming web-based APIs
Bonus points for :
- Operational experience such as SRE or on-call, demonstrating ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems for critical systems
- Experience with Docker or similar containerization technologies
- Experience with CI / CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience with backend web frameworks (Symfony, Spring, .NET)
- Experience with modern PHP, Rust and Python
- High-level understanding of cryptography concepts such as key exchange and the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption
- Experience with DDD (Domain-Driven Design) and other enterprise patterns
- Experience with metrics graphing / analysis toolkits such as Grafana and OpenTelemetry
- Solid understanding of Redis or other caching technologies
- Experience with OpenAPI specs or other API documentation frameworks
Why should you join Proton?
Be part of a movement - Proton is not just a product or service but a community-driven movement united by a shared vision of online freedom.
Our services are open source, audited, and supported by community contributions. We give back to our community by maintaining core encryption libraries and by supporting other organizations furthering the same goals as us.
Proton is free, open source, neutral, independent, and community first, while remaining financially sustainable.
- Work with smart and dedicated people - Our team is diverse, collaborative, and tight-knit with people coming from all walks of life, including many of the world’s top academic institutions and organizations, such as MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Cambridge, and ETH.
- Join a strong brand - Our encrypted email service - Proton Mail - has grown to be a staple of online security and privacy.
Proton has been featured in multiple popular television and film productions, such as Mr. Robot, Knives Out, Sounds of Metal, and more.
- Grow with us - We’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups, doubling in size every year. Our growth gives you limitless career and educational opportunities as well as the opportunity to work side-by-side with many world-leading experts in their fields.
- Have your voice heard - We value your opinion and encourage you to speak up and share your ideas and thoughts. At Proton, no problem is someone else’s problem.
We collectively strive to do the right thing and be the undisputed best in the world at everything we do.
- Benefits these vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events and team building activities.
