Senior Backend Developer (Scala)

About Exeon

Exeon is a Swiss cyber security company based in Zurich. Since 2016, we have been protecting critical infrastructures, financial institutions and enterprises whose operations fully rely on IT through AI-powered analysis of network communication. This makes the most sophisticated cyberattacks visible – attacks conventional tools fail to detect. We combine Swiss excellence with a flexible, remote-first, and collaborative culture, supporting passionate, ambitious professionals devoted to solving cybersecurity challenges and driving continuous innovation.

• Value-Driven Culture : Work guided by our Exeon values (proactive problem-solving, curiosity, ambition, ownership, transparency and care for each other)
• Continuous Personal Growth: Benefit from our annual training budget dedicated to your professional development.
• Truly International Team: Join colleagues from diverse backgrounds across the globe.
• Company Events & Workshops: Connect with colleagues through regular team events and collaborative workshops.
• Remote‑First & Flexible Work: Enjoy remote‑first culture with hybrid options (office in Zürich) when it fits best.
• Family-Friendly Options: Part-time roles & enhanced maternity and paternity leave.

What your impact will be like:

• Guide the backend team on architectural questions, both for new features and old code to be refactored
• Mentor backend team members on growth paths
• Actively develop our backend code and have an impact on not only the GUI of our NDR tool, but also on our analytics backend.
• Work closely together with the DEV team to develop new features, ensuring the continued success of Exeon.NDR.

Job requirements

• You have 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering
• Open, reliable and collaborative professional who enjoys working in teams and can take ownership over individual projects
• Interest and passion for cybersecurity and the culture of a fast-growing scale-up culture
• Strong Scala coding skills , with a knack for architectural topics
• You can write code that is readable, well-structured and performant.
• Writing code together with tests comes natural to you. You know what degree of coverage with unit-tests and integration-tests will create quality code
• You understand complex code and are able to break tasks down into easily digestible pieces, both for new features as well as refactoring tasks
• Being neither an absolute perfectionist nor a minimalist, you know the perfect compromise between the two. You deliver outstanding code without rewriting everything from scratch, but covering all the necessary details
• You have strong communication skills. You can grasp concepts explained to you easily and are able to convey your own thoughts effectively and efficiently.
• You are fluent in English.

Fähigkeiten

ScalaSecurityCybersecurity

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