Job Description

Software Architect (f/m/d)

80 – 100% · Permanent position · Immediately or by agreement · Home office option

Galaxus, Switzerland’s top e-commerce platform with 3,000+ team members, is expanding fast. Team Empire builds the Data & ML Platform powering analytics and ML use‑cases. We’re looking for a hands‑on Software Architect to shape technical vision, drive trade‑offs, and help engineers deliver at scale. Act galactic. Be you.

What you move

  • 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.

What you will bring

  • At least 2-3 years Software Architect
  • Completed degree (university / university of applied science / higher technical college)
  • English (Fluent)
  • 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.

The benefits we offer

  • Flexible working hours
  • Flexible workplace / working from home
  • Maternity/paternity leave
  • Employee offers
  • Holidays
  • Individual continuing training
  • Initial and continuing vocation training
  • Personal responsibility & freedom
  • Room to manoeuvre and decision-making
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Application and contact details

Maja Crljen
Only direct applications will be considered for this position.

Galaxus
DG Hauptsitz
Pfingstweidstrasse 60b
8005 Zürich

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