Backend Engineer

Are you a versatile, curious engineer who thinks in solutions rather than stacks? At Swiss Re, we build technology with real purpose and we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help shape the next stage of our engineering journey.

About the Role

Within our IT Resilience unit, we develop the platforms, integrations and capabilities that help Swiss Re understand and manage its complex technology landscape. This is a hands-on senior role with genuine scope to influence how we engineer solutions. You will work across backend services, integrations and automation, strengthen engineering resilience across the team, mentor less experienced engineers and help us build new capabilities through AI Agents and intelligent automation.

We are not looking for someone defined by a single language or stack. We are looking for an experienced, curious engineer who brings strong fundamentals, fresh technical thinking, and the versatility to work across different technologies. Someone excited by the opportunity to help build our AI competency, comfortable learning new approaches and energised by turning complex problems into pragmatic, scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop reliable backend services, APIs, integrations, and automation, selecting technologies based on the problem and desired outcome
• Work across different languages, platforms, and technologies, applying strong engineering principles rather than being constrained to a particular stack
• Strengthen engineering resilience and contingency across our technology landscape, with the versatility to contribute to backend services and data integration or transformation workloads when required
• Help shape and build AI Agent and intelligent automation capabilities, identifying meaningful opportunities and helping promising ideas progress from experimentation into practical solutions
• Work with enterprise data and databases to support integration, transformation, automation and application requirements
• Provide strong technical and design input, working alongside our Solutions Architect and engineering colleagues to translate complex business and IT resilience challenges into pragmatic, scalable, and maintainable solutions
• Build and operate software using modern engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, containerisation, observability and cloud deployment
• Mentor junior engineers and help raise engineering standards, providing constructive technical challenge and guidance on design, code quality, testing and problem solving