Senior Backend Engineer for Weather API | Full Time (80-100%) | St. Gallen, Switzerland

What's the weather like tomorrow? 🌦️

At Meteomatics, we're answering this question with the most accurate weather data, helping several hundreds of companies and research institutions worldwide to accelerate the energy transition, reduce the business’ impact on the environment, and make products and services safer for society.

Meteomatics is growing faster than you can say lightning!
And we're now looking for an equally dynamic C++ / Python Software Engineer to join us in St. Gallen! ⚡

You will work in one of our API teams developing services and algorithms that browse petabytes of weather data blazingly quick to provide real-time insights for our customers worldwide.

What you'll do

• Develop and tune high-performance C++ algorithms for processing and forecasting weather data to serve millions of daily API requests.

• Build robust services and Python scripts for real-time data acquisition from global sources.

• Drive hands-on development across the stack, from low-level implementation to system architecture, building scalable, maintainable, and high-quality software solutions.

• Provide technical leadership through strong software engineering expertise, combining hands-on coding, architectural decision-making, and cross-team technical mentorship.

• Architect and manage the storage, processing, and distribution of petabytes of spatial-temporal data, including radar/satellite imagery, station observations, and model forecasts.

• Monitor and operate the Meteomatics Weather API in production to ensure 24/7 reliability.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT or Systems Engineering or a related field, and/or relevant certifications and qualifications

• At least 5 years of work experience on high volume and highly available API backends

• Rock solid knowledge on web technologies (HTTPS, REST APIs, CDN, Websockets,...)

• Strong C++ knowhow and proven experience in parallelization and high-performance computing

• Strong knowledge of Linux and how to make optimal use of system resources (e.g. large scale RAM management, …)

• You are eager to embrace challenges and to develop innovative solutions in close collaboration with your team mates.

• You enjoy working in an interdisciplinary team and are motivated to work with weather data

• You show initiative and strong communication skills - fluent in English, German (or Swiss German 😉) is a plus

• Swiss/EU citizenship or work permit is mandatory

What you'll get

• The Meteomatics Culture: Technological innovation and cross-functional collaboration through all stages from idea to product: This is the base in our strive for Excellence and Reliability - as partner for our customers as well as our employees (see more here)

• International environment: we come from all over the globe and have very different backgrounds

• Work-Life-Balance: we do offer 5 weeks of vacation, hybrid work (up to two days per week) and fun social activities like barbecues at the terrace, ski day on the Swiss mountains, summer off-site events, after-work games… After all, we believe happy and well-rested employees do their best work!

Meteomatics is a world-leading weather and climate data provider, passionate about transforming and growing the application of weather information worldwide. We want people who share our mission to help organizations access accurate weather forecasts to realize their business goals and protect lives and property.

Still reading?

We are looking forward to your application!

Meteomatics is an equal-opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We accept only direct applications.

To learn more about Meteomatics, please visit our website: www.meteomatics.com