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Backend Engineer (Sylius | Symfony) 50-100%
👋 Intro
🎯 Your Mission
🧩 Responsibilities
🧠 Your Profile
🤝 The Team Around You
🎁 What We Offer
🏛️ Our Values
🔍 Want to Know More About Us?
🔥 Apply Now
We are a dynamic scale-up and have been revolutionising the Swiss e-commerce market for over 5 years. With our unique platforms — from Brands for Employees to Brands for Students and the MyAXA Deals Platform — we offer exclusive access to leading products and services to closed communities. In partnership with Twint, we also run the majority of Twint Superdeals.
With 80+ passionate team members across Europe, we generate a mid double-digit million turnover and have grown at an average of 70% annually. Awarded the SEF.Growth High Potential Label by the Swiss Economic Forum, we’re on an ambitious journey and you know what — we’re just getting started 🚀.
We are now looking for a Backend Engineer with strong expertise in Symfony and Sylius to take ownership of building and evolving the core services behind our platforms. You will play a key role in shaping one of the most critical and impactful areas of our business: the systems that power our e-commerce platforms and internal ERP. As one of your first missions, you will work closely with our Lead Backend, CTO, and product teams to implement new features and extend existing applications — contributing directly to the scalability and reliability of our technology stack, a major milestone on our product roadmap.
Place of work: Dällikon, Zurich area or Remote
Start: immediately or by arrangement
🚀 Mission
Join us as a Backend Engineer (Sylius | Symfony) to build the services and APIs powering our commerce platforms and internal ERP. You will implement reliable, scalable back-end features in PHP with Symfony and Sylius, helping us ship business-critical functionality at pace and quality. You report directly to our Lead Backend (and collaborate closely with the CTO on key initiatives).
What makes this role unique? You’ll work across our customer-facing platforms (e.g. Brands for Employees, Brands for Students, MyAXA Deals) and our self-developed internal systems — extending existing applications and building new services from scratch to meet evolving business needs.
Your Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and extend back-end features in PHP using Symfony and Sylius
- Build and maintain REST/GraphQL APIs for our frontends and partners
- Model domains with Doctrine ORM, write performant queries, and manage migrations
- Apply caching and performance optimization (e.g., Redis, query tuning, HTTP caching)
- Extend Sylius via plugins, custom resources, and events to support business workflows
- Integrate third-party services (payments, CRM, PIM/ERP, messaging) reliably and securely
- Implement asynchronous processing with Symfony Messenger and RabbitMQ
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code; practice TDD where it adds value
- Leverage modern practices (DDD, event-driven design) when appropriate
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), code reviews, and automated QA
- Enhance observability (structured logging, metrics, tracing) and security (OWASP basics, authN/Z)
- Work in a cross-functional team with Lead Backend, CTO, Frontend, DevOps, QA, and Product
- Break down features, estimate, and deliver iteratively in Scrum
- Document services, contracts, and integration patterns for reuse and onboarding
Your Profile
- Several years as a back-end developer; strong in PHP and Symfony (≈5+ years)
- Hands-on with Sylius (or similar e-commerce frameworks) — plugin/extensibility experience is a big plus
- Solid RDBMS skills: MySQL or PostgreSQL; comfortable with schema design and performance tuning
- Experience building and consuming APIs (REST and/or GraphQL)
- Messaging and async processing with RabbitMQ (Symfony Messenger) is a plus
- Fluent with GitLab and Git-based workflows; CI/CD familiarity
- Ability to write clean, efficient, and maintainable code; strong analytical problem-solving
- Enjoy working in a dynamic, agile environment; collaborate effectively across teams
- Comfortable juggling multiple projects and shifting priorities
- Proficient in English (spoken & written); German or French is a bonus
- Nice-to-haves: Docker/containers, API Platform, Redis, cloud basics
- Genuine enthusiasm for technology, programming, and continuous learning
The Team Around You
You report directly to our Lead Backend and collaborate closely with the CTO on key technical decisions. Day to day, you’ll work with Frontend Engineers, DevOps, QA, and the Product Owner to deliver reliable, performant features.
You’ll partner with business stakeholders when needed to ensure that technical solutions align with real operational requirements and customer value.
What We Offer
- Remote-first flexibility: Work from anywhere
- Impact: Build core systems for a fast-growing e-commerce company
- Growth: Develop professionally within a skilled, supportive team
- Real responsibility: Your work directly shapes shopping experiences and internal efficiency
- Collaboration: Work with diverse, interdisciplinary teams
- Culture: Innovation, creativity, and dedication to staff development
- Modern backend stack: Symfony, Sylius, APIs, messaging, CI/CD
- Level up: Strengthen problem-solving and adaptability in a fast-moving environment
- Team moments: Enjoy team & company events in Switzerland
- Languages: Improve bilingual communication in German and English
- Startup energy: Flat hierarchies, quick decisions, and room for creative solutions
Our Values
We cultivate growth by fostering a culture of learning, innovation, and opportunity that empowers our teams, communities and partners to succeed.
We put our customers and partners at the center of everything we do, delivering holistic solutions that build trust, create value, and ensure shared success.
We believe in the power of collaboration, embracing different perspectives and contributions that drive our progress. Together we achieve more.
Want to Know More About Us?
To get a deeper insight into who we are, what drives us, and how we’re shaping the future of community-based commerce, check out the articles about us on leading Swiss platforms — and our careers page for open roles.
💡 e-Commerce-Plus by Forbes
In this Forbes Switzerland piece, Digt is profiled as a next-gen e-commerce enabler — not just building shops, but creating smart ecosystems for targeted communities.
🚀 The E-Commerce Community Builder by Swiss Economics Forum
The Swiss Economic Forum’s SEF Growth Programme, Switzerland’s leading entrepreneurship initiative, recognized Digt as a high-potential growth company. This article explores how we redefine value creation in niche communities — and why we’re scaling fast.
🧭 The eCommerce Makers for the Banking, Media and Education Industries by Carpathia
In this Carpathia blog post, one of Switzerland’s leading consultancies for digital business shines a spotlight on how Digt is building tailored e-commerce solutions for closed communities — with concrete use cases in banking, education, and media.
🎙️Exklusive Marktplätze für Unternehmen und Marken by Handelszeitung
In this Handelszeitung podcast episode, our founders talk about the origins of Digt, the vision behind our community-driven platforms, and how we collaborate with some of Switzerland’s most prominent brands.
🛒 Digt schafft Marktplätze für Community-Basierten Handel by Founded
Founded.ch dives into our approach of creating exclusive marketplaces and why community is the future of e-commerce.
🌍 Digt Closes Funding Round to Expand Internationally by Startupticker
This Startupticker feature covers our recent CHF 3.7 million funding round — highlighting investor confidence, our international ambitions, and the next chapter in our growth story.
🔗 Read the full article (Startupticker)
Are you interested?
Want to make an impact across hundreds thousands of users while shaping the systems behind the scenes?
Then this might be your next big move.
Send us your application including CV, references and diplomas and tell us why you are the right person for this position.
We’re excited to hear from you.
Apply now!