Senior Backend Developer (SAT-platform) - Zurich (Onsite)

Join blp – The #1 Solution for ERP Automation

blp is a high-performance ETH and HSG spin-off redefining ERP automation with AI. We solve real enterprise problems with cutting-edge tech and a strong sense of ownership. Our solution is in production across 40+ countries, used by 20'000+ daily active users, automating 70'000+ processes every day.

Our AI-driven ERP automation is transforming finance, procurement, logistics, sales, and more. As one of Switzerland's fastest-growing SaaS scale-ups, we are proudly self-financed and fully employee-owned.

Our success stems from deep expertise in technology and business processes, delivering a superior product with an outstanding product-to-market fit, proven by our growing customer base, including Fortune 500 companies.

Our rapid growth and career opportunities have been recognised with the LinkedIn Top Startup Award, and we’re just getting started. Our HQ? Zürich’s iconic Bahnhofstrasse, a fitting home for a company redefining how businesses operate.

Ready to build the future? Join blp today.

The Team

The SAT-platform team is the foundation that enables blp's stream-aligned teams (invoices, customer orders, order confirmations, and more) to deliver cutting-edge automated document processing solutions. We build and maintain core platform infrastructure that powers these teams, while also owning critical products that span the entire organization.

Our platform team owns core capabilities spanning analytics, workflow orchestration, and data integration. We enable stream-aligned teams to focus on their domain-specific challenges by providing robust, scalable infrastructure and shared services. At the same time, we drive innovation in our own areas, with exciting new initiatives currently taking shape.

We have a strong sense of end-to-end ownership and a desire to have direct impact by solving real world problems. Within the team, we also strive to own and shape how we work together, how we grow, both as individuals and as a team.

What you’ll do

• Enable Stream-Aligned Teams: Build and maintain platform capabilities that empower business and engineering teams to deliver their products efficiently and at scale.

• Own Core Capabilities: Drive development of platform capabilities spanning analytics, workflow orchestration, and data integration, shaping their evolution from conception to production.

• Build Great Software: Design and develop clean, maintainable, and high-quality software. Conduct code reviews and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.

• Shape Architecture: Collaborate on system design, tech stack decisions and optimizations for scalability, performance, and maintainability across platform and product boundaries.

• Lead and Influence: Guide technical direction for major initiatives, shape how the platform and products evolve, and mentor team members along the way.

• Promote Innovation and Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues to continuously improve processes, tools, and team practices while fostering a culture of learning and growing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering role.

• Passionate about software craftsmanship: Strong understanding of software development principles, Clean Code and Clean Architecture.

• Product thinking: Ability to translate business problems into precise requirements, specifications and ultimately into code.

• Entrepreneurial mindset: link your daily work to team and company goals, balance cost and benefit, deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.

• Ownership: take responsibility for your technical work, for the product we build and the team we shape.

• Team-oriented: proactively support team goals, close gaps.

• Abstraction and efficient communication: simplify complex systems, identify core concepts, communicate complex ideas clearly.

What we offer

• Hybrid work: Flexible hybrid work arrangement with 3 days per week in the office.

• Employee ownership: As a fully employee-owned company, you share in the success you help create.

• Prime location: Office right next to Zürich's iconic Bahnhofstrasse.

• Impact at scale: Your work powers automation for 20'000+ daily users across 40+ countries.

• Growth opportunities: Join one of Switzerland's fastest-growing SaaS scale-ups, recognised with the LinkedIn Top Startup Award.

• Autonomy and ownership: Shape how your team works, what you build, and how the product evolves.