Staff Backend Engineer

Lausanne, VD, ch💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-31 → 2026-09-27

Core

Design, build, and deliver large-scale resilient distributed services processing billions of events for a digital employee experience platform.

Role type

Staff Backend Engineer (Java)

Builds

Scalable data platform and distributed services

Domain

SaaS / Digital Employee Experience (DEX)

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Java, Microservices, Kafka, AWS, Unit/Integration/E2E testing, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Agile methodologies

Preferred skills

Micronaut, Spring framework, Streaming services, Distributed cache

Responsibilities

Implement and streamline the data platform; Collaborate with Product Management and stakeholders; Design scalable solutions with architects; Participate in technology roadmap; Advocate for security and performance improvements; Enforce best practices; Ship complex features; Handle L3 support requests

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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About Nexthink

Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. As the first solution to allow IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization, Nexthink enables its more than 1,500 customers to provide better digital experiences to more than 25+ million employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 off