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Datasite and its associated businesses are the global center for facilitating economic value creation for companies across the globe. From data rooms to AI deal sourcing and more. Here you’ll find the finest technological pioneers: Datasite , Blueflame AI, Grata, and Sherpany. They all, collectively, define the future for business growth.
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Job Description:
Sherpany by Datasite is the leading Swiss meeting management solution, designed to meet the unique needs of the board, board committee, and executive meetings. Our solution streamlines the entire meeting process to make meetings more productive and thus enhancing company performance. Our customers include well-known medium to large companies in all industries, such as Axpo, Raiffeisen Bank and Calida Group. More than 400 companies already use Sherpany.
We’ve come a long way since 2011. Sherpany is now a team of 150 talented individuals, working from all around the world. Our culture is rooted in trust and responsibility, and we’re proud of the productive and healthy nature of our work environment
About The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer , you pair deep backend expertise with pragmatic ownership. You collaborate across product, frontend, mobile, and platform to ship reliable, scalable services, raise performance baselines, strengthen CI/CD, and simplify architecture, all with a strong security mindset.
If you are product-minded, data-driven, and energized by improving systems at scale, you will thrive here.
What You'll Do
Design, develop, and operate reliable, scalable APIs and services in Python with Django and Django REST Framework.
Lead architectural changes that simplify the system: data modeling improvements, service boundaries, messaging patterns, and zero-downtime migrations.
Collaborate with DevOps on pipelines and infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, and promote trunk-based development and deployment safety.
Write and maintain unit and integration tests to ensure high code quality and system reliability.
Collaborate with Frontend, Mobile, UX, and Product to shape solutions and negotiate APIs that improve developer experience and user outcomes.
Mentor engineers through structured feedback, pairing, and design reviews. Contribute to chapter knowledge sharing through talks and docs.
What You Bring
Expert-level Python with Django and Django REST Framework. Strong understanding of RESTful API design and versioning.
Strong SQL and PostgreSQL expertise, including performance tuning, indexing, partitioning, and schema evolution Experience building resilient asynchronous systems using Celery and message brokers such as RabbitMQ.
Practical caching strategies with Redis, including eviction policies and cache-aside patterns.
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions for safe, fast delivery with canaries and feature flags.
Product-focused observability with SLIs/SLOs, actionable alerts, and trace-to-log correlation.
Fix and prevent: diagnose with profiling and tracing, then instrument, document, and test to avoid regressions.
A data-driven mindset with a focus on problem-solving and decision-making.
Proactive mindset with the ability to anticipate challenges, suggest improvements, and take initiative in problem-solving.
Strong teamwork and collaboration skills, with the ability to work seamlessly across design, product, and engineering teams.
Why Sherpany
Be part of an international company where you’ll take on responsibility and your ideas are always welcome.
We invest in your personal and professional growth by offering financial support for further education, training, and more.
Your well-being matters – our partner nilo.health supports you in maintaining it.
Work with the latest technologies and an Apple MacBook provided at the start of your journey with us.
Last but not least: Our company culture is important to us – we regularly organize team events and foster a values-driven environment.
We look forward to your application! 😃
Our company is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce where all individuals are respected and valued. We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are dedicated to building teams that reflect the diversity of our communities.