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Pfingstweidstrasse 60b
CH-8005 Zürich
Software Architect (f/m/d)
- Zurich
- 80% - 100%
- Product Development
- English
Who we are
As the top Swiss e-commerce platform, with a crew of over 3’000 across Switzerland, Germany, and Serbia, Galaxus is poised to move into new markets. Our driving force is our determination to keep challenging the status quo. That’s why we’re on the lookout for characters who’re passionate about making genuine improvements. We’ll give you the freedom and trust to make an impact, to grow with us and to be yourself. Act galactic. Be you.
Team Empire builds the Data Platform and Machine Learning Platform that power data products, analytics, and ML use-cases across Digitec Galaxus. Our mission is to enable Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, and ML Engineers to efficiently work with data and ML models in a way that is secure, cost-effective, and reliable. We’re looking for a hands-on Software Architect who owns the technical vision, helps us make great tradeoffs, and enables engineers to deliver reliably at scale.
Your responsibilities
You take technical ownership for the architecture and evolution of our platform products:
- Own and drive the system design vision for our Data Platform & ML Platform, and align it with the broader technical strategy.
- Define and clarify stable interfaces with other teams (e.g., dataset/data product contracts, APIs, event/stream contracts, feature definitions).
- Lead initiatives smoothly— acting as solution architect or enabling another engineers on that role.
- Ensure our technical decisions are consistent across solutions (security patterns, IAM, observability, CI/CD, data quality, governance).
- Continuously reduce technical debt and guide incremental refactoring of legacy parts.
- Review and challenge designs: ask probing questions, surface assumptions, and help reduce complex concepts to clear building blocks and simple interfaces.
- Drive non-functional improvements: scalability, reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and security.
- Collaborate closely with our Domain Architect, and partner stakeholders (e.g., Data Architect, Data Protection Officer) to ensure the platform supports compliance and federated governance.
Your skills
- Higher specialized education in the field of Computer Science (ETH/UNI/FH).
- Hands-on experience with an enjoyment of coding.
- A strong track record in designing and delivering platform solutions supporting distributed systems built by many different teams.
- Solid platform/DevOps engineering skills: cloud technologies (ideally GCP and Azure), CI/CD, automation, Docker containers, and orchestration (Kubernetes). Infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform) is a plus.
- Strong understanding of data platform concepts such as orchestration and processing (e.g., Airflow, Dagster), data warehouses (BigQuery), and ETL/ELT practices.
- Familiarity with streaming/event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka).
- At least 5 years of professional experience in Python programming.
- Professional experience in C# is a strong plus.
- Background in Data Science or ML Engineering is a plus -you understand the pain points of training, deploying, and operating ML models at scale.
- Great communication skills in English; German is a plus.
Why start with us?
- Values, not empty words: Cooperative, innovative, piratesque, responsible, ambitious – these five values are what we practise and preach.
- Courageous thinking: We encourage everyone to think on their feet, and love it when they come up with bold or edgy ideas.
- Uncomplicated approach: Simplicity is at our core. We avoid the unnecessary and focus on what really matters – from overcoming challenges to celebrating our shared successes.
- Flexibility and freedom: We offer working-from-home options, up to 8 weeks of workation, and every position is possible with an 80% workload.
- Rapid growth: With us, growth is a continuous journey. We also support you with 2'000 EDU points per year for your professional development so there’s no risk of you getting stuck in a rut.
- More benefits: 25 days of holiday, exclusive employee conditions in our online shop, mobile, internet and TV plans at company rates.
Diversity is our culture.
To build the best team, we want to draw from the full spectrum of talent out there. This means people from all walks of life have the same opportunities with us, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, disability status, gender identity, sexual orientation or age. We believe true inclusion means everyone is welcome and each contribution is valuable.
Working Language
EnglishWorkload
80% - 100%Location
Digitec Galaxus AGPfingstweidstrasse 60b
CH-8005 Zürich
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Act galactic. Be you.
We believe that shared values are key for long-lasting success. This is why a strong company culture is more important to us than strict rules and guidelines.