Senior Full Stack Engineer (Phoenix/Elixir)

We at Marko strive to make secondhand the first choice. We will make buying and selling second-hand online easy, fun, and secure with our next-generation C2C social marketplace.

Step 1 Make buying and selling second-hand an amazing experience

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Step 2 Invite everybody to join our community

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Step 3 Make it even better

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Join our dynamic and driven team and help advance the

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economy.

Let’s make Switzerland (and later more countries…) more sustainable and less wasteful!

We're hiring a senior full stack engineer to join our amazing team of A+ people and build together the foundation of Marko. If you are up for a challenge and you want to make an impact, talk to us today at

jobs@marko.ch⁠

Why join

As a small team, we work in a highly collaborative environment and you'll have the opportunity to participate in every part of the business from idea to production.

Impact: Build the foundation and shape engineering practices, team, and company culture.

Excellence: Practice your craft with others in a well-organised, fast-paced environment.

Ownership: Influence the direction of product and strategy — we care about your opinions.

What you'll do (responsibilities)

We’re looking for an experienced superstar who enjoys working alongside our experienced engineers and product team to quickly build and iterate on backend and frontend for our secondhand marketplace.

Build the core, user-facing product. You’ll build the product and everything behind the scenes from the ground up, having a huge and direct impact by shipping your work to users daily.

Use modern web tech and influence the stack. We use the PETAL stack. LiveView with TailwindCSS on the frontend, and Elixir/Phoenix on the backend to build a best-in-class client and infrastructure that scales. As we build out our stack, you get to make critical choices and lay the foundations.

Create a robust and scalable backend. Build PostgreSQL database models, performant API, 3rd party integrations (payment, shipping, insurance), product analytics, transactional email, and service monitoring. We currently deploy to AWS to keep DevOps simple and will be looking for you to establish viable long-term cloud infrastructure and operations.

Build UI components. You’ll implement basic UI with TailwindCSS and LiveView based on Figma mocks and our design system. You’ll collaborate with designers and frontend engineers on user-facing features powered by your backend code. We rapidly ship UI that has an amazing feel to it by polishing CSS, interaction states, and animations.

Solve interesting technical problems. Bring your full creativity to solve super-challenging technical problems: from complex backend architecture with many 3rd party integrations, real-time product search, recommendation engine, highly scalable e-commerce platform, to nifty client-side interactions.

What we're looking for (qualifications)

You're a senior individual contributor that has built online platforms before and this is not an area you have to ramp up on. We don't require formal qualifications but do value learning — especially from one another. We are looking for someone with an excellent attention to detail that feels a sense of duty to the users of their work.

Used Elixir, Phoenix & LiveView in production before. You are a strong supporter of FP and keep up diligently with the advances in the Elixir universe. Being an active member of the community would be a strong plus.

Highly productive while producing quality code. You enjoy pushing out features in a pragmatic and maintainable way. You know when to use duct tape and when to lay a foundation.

Curious and quick learning. We don't expect you to have experience in every technology we use, but to learn and be productive quickly. Owning several repos and jumping into all of them doesn't scare you.

Design sensibility. While you'll co-craft the interface with top designers and frontend engineers, we expect you to have a knack for great UX, such that you feel if something is off and can flag it, or better yet, polish it.

Attention to detail while pragmatic. We strive for few slips in code, Git hygiene, and clear written communication — all while remaining low-ego and simply focusing on solutions.

Good heart. We don't tolerate jerks and are generally just friendly people.

Nice add-ons: machine learning, data engineering and/or dev ops experience.

What we offer (compensation & benefits)

We'll treat you well. If any other benefits are important to you, talk to us.

Competitive salary and equity — multiple options based on your desire for ownership.

Flexible Work Arrangements — Embrace a healthy work-life balance with the option to work remotely, and to join us in our office in Zurich, Switzerland several times a year

Shape the future –—Improve consumption behaviour in Switzerland and abroad.

Paid time off — 5 weeks paid vacation (6 weeks after 2 years), paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.

Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, and accessories.