Nexthink

Technology

StaffSoftwareEngineer

$175–250k ~AI est. Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
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The Brief

“Staff Software Engineer at Nexthink. Skills: Large-scale distributed systems, Cloud-native architectures, Backend engineering. Reimagine automation for AI era. Evolve Flow platform”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Diagnose issues; Fix issues; Proactive optimization; Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

10+ years backend experience, 3+ years Staff/Principal roles, Expert in Java (17+), Hands-on cloud-native architectures, Deep understanding API design, Deep understanding streaming data, Deep understanding event-driven systems, Proven success scaling backend systems

Nice to Have

Advanced AI/ML experience, B2B enterprise product experience

What You'll Do.

Reimagine automation for AI era

Dynamically generate workflows

Execute workflows securely

Build large-scale systems

Ship distributed systems

Serve enterprise customers

Define product features

Build real product features

Measure Gen AI effectiveness

Drive technical direction

Influence architectural decisions

Raise engineering standards

Navigate early-stage exploration

Align engineering strategy

Champion engineering excellence

Support other engineers

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product Management; UX; Product; Infrastructure; Security; Cost Governance; AI/ML teams; Cross-functional teams; Leadership

Communication Scope

Influence leadership; Technical direction

Full Job Description

Nexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. As the first solution to allow IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization, Nexthink enables its more than 1,300 customers to provide better digital experiences to more than 18 million employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide. #LI-Hybrid Imagine building the automation platform that powers the future of IT — not just for human operators, but for AI agents themselves. At Nexthink, we're evolving Flow , our enterprise automation product, into something genuinely new: an AI-native platform where intelligent agents dynamically create and orchestrate the executions for enterprise scale and reliability. This is a ground-floor opportunity to shape a product that doesn’t fully exist yet. You’ll be joining a small, high-impact team at the very beginning of this journey — working closely with leadership to explore, build, and define what next-generation IT automation looks like. If you thrive in ambiguity, love owning things end-to-end, and want your work to matter at scale, this role was built for you. We're hiring Staff Software Engineer to join this initiative. Responsibilities: * Reimagining automation for the AI era — evolving Flow from a human-operated platform into one that AI agents can leverage to dynamically generate and execute workflows in secure, reliable, sandboxed environments. * Building at scale — designing and shipping large-scale, distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems that serve enterprise customers with hundreds of thousands of endpoints. * Shaping the product — working closely with Product Management and UX to define not just how to build things, but what is worth

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