Open positions:
- UX/UI designer (f/m/*, 80-100%, remote)
- React Frontend Developer (mid-level or senior) (f/m/*, 80%-100%, remote)
- DevOps / k8s / PHP (f/m/*, 80%-100%, remote) or DevOps / k8s only (f/m/*, 40%-60%, remote)
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As we hire inters every half year, the next starting time for a new intern will be February 2023:
We are honored that you consider working with us. We are always looking for interesting people and the best talents available – just drop us a line at jobs@politik.ch and we’ll respond for sure. As we share common values of diversity, we ALWAYS encourage women to apply for our positions. Dear agencies, headhunters, outsourcing, offshoring providers: we only accept direct applications, please.
As we are constantly looking for motivated talents you may send your application to jobs@politik.ch anyway and we’ll answer you for sure.
UX/UI designer (f/m/*, 80-100%, remote)
We are POLITANALYTICS, a Swiss / European policy platform which helps politics & policy professionals to monitor and manage their political matters. And we are growing! So, we are hiring a new team member – as soon as possible:
UX/UI designer (f/m/*, 80-100%, remote)
Do you like to create engaging experiences and to guide users through intuitive and easy-to-use interfaces? You like to maintain the consistency of a brand? You know what big data- based digital storytelling is, and know how to use UI/UX best practices to take great design to the next level? Do you like playing around with and visualizing (open) data? Are you interested in the mechanics of politics and policymaking? As we share common values of diversity, we encourage 
EVERYBODY to apply for this position.
You:
- are bridging the gap between product development and visual design
- design fluid and consistent interactions based on agreed principles
- do rapid wireframing following interaction principles, on input from product team
- focus on UX & interaction design
- transfer a design system into individual screen designs
- provide accessibility knowledge & common web standards
- are able to work independently and in a team
- are very good at English as our main working language
- are based in Europe / within CET (max. ± 2h) timezone.
Even better, if you:
- have a human-centered design approach in solving user needs with deep user empathy, understand the user experience and how to analyze and test usability
- work in visual design and along design systems
- have a strong interest in politics and understand know how political decision-making works
- speak German / French / Italian.
We:
- are an amazing team with zero ego
- expand as a start-up / scale-up rapidly but keep our family-friendly approach without night shifts, overtime, and free weekend
- live roles instead of hierarchy
- work remote by default
- already created a frckn awesome product, leading in Switzerland
…and, yes, we do have fun at work.
Additional good-to-knows:
- you are part of the UX/design team, within a fully agile product / design / backend / frontend / testing team of senior / mid-level / junior professionals
- competitive compensation based on your location
- role could be performed part-time, with great flexibility, and we support flexible working arrangements
- twice a year workation on all expenses paid
- (self-) education tracks available.
Please send your application (CV, cover letter, portfolio link / track record of relevant projects) to our UX lead Andres Vazquez, jobs@politik.ch. Don’t hesitate to ask any questions.
React Frontend Developer (mid-level or senior) (f/m/*, 80%-100%, remote)
We are POLITANALYTICS, a Swiss / European policy platform which helps politics & policy professionals to monitor and manage their political matters. And we are growing! So, we are hiring a new team member – as soon as possible:
React Frontend Developer (mid-level or senior) (f/m/*, 80%-100%, remote)
Are you passionate about recent web developments and new technologies? Are you an open-data nerd? Are you interested in the mechanics of politics? As we share common values of diversity, we especially encourage women and ️🌈 to apply for this position.
PolitAnalytics is based on Symfony, React, D3.js and some more libraries. You will join a fully agile team of back-end / front-end developers / product & design team. Our tool is a comprehensive, reliable, fast, and independent platform that collects and processes open government data focusing on politics.
Your role is dedicated to long-term learning and self-developing, so you will be key in maintaining and expanding our platform. Therefore we offer competitive compensation based on your location, and additional benefits, depending on your needs and goals. We will work fully remote. Your role can be performed part-time (80-100%), with great flexibility, and we support flexible working arrangements.
Your must-haves:
- Proven professional experience of at least 2 years in React/Redux, HTML, CSS and JavaScript/TypeScript. You actively participated in at least 2-3 large-scale projects.
- Proactive person, willing to participate in software design & architectural decisions and discussions (code architecture) .
- We expect you to have all capabilities in web development: a good understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, Git, Unit tests, as well as good knowledge of all underlying concepts of web architecture (HTTPS, REST APIs, Browser APIs, DOM manipulation, performance optimization).
- Completed / well advanced education in computer science, programming, or applied informatics (university, technical college or similar) OR self-trained wizard with proven outstanding track record.
- Independent working habits.
- Passion about writing clean and optimized code.
- Ability to work in a team environment – you will be working very closely with designers (creating pixel-perfect web pages), as well as the business and the UX teams, peer-reviewing team members’ code.
- Ability and willingness to constantly improve and learn new skills.
- Very good command of English as our main working language. We are a team of good communicators within product design, back end, front end, business.
- Based in Europe / within CET (max. ± 2h) timezone, fully able (passport, visa) to travel internationally twice a year.
Your nice-to-haves:
- Solid experience of applied UX / UI.
- Experience with any of the following: Redux-toolkit, Webpack, MUI, styled components, React-Hook-Form.
- In-depth knowledge of CSS – the box-model, browser compatibility, pseudo-classes/elements, selectors specificity, responsive web design.
- German language skills are a plus, French and / or Italian language skills would be a super-plus.
Our hiring process follows 2-3 interviews with a personal interview, some coding tasks within a given amount of time, a skills assessment interview, and a final HR / contracting interview.
Please send your application (CV, cover letter, portfolio link / track record of relevant projects) to Clemens Schuster,,jobs@politik.ch. Don’t hesitate to call / text / message at +41 76 540 52 88 to ask any questions.
DevOps / k8s / PHP (f/m/*, 80-100%, remote) or
DevOps / k8s only (f/m/*, 40-60%, remote)
We are POLITANALYTICS, a Swiss / European policy platform which helps politics & policy professionals to monitor and manage their political matters. And we are growing! So, we are hiring a new team member – as soon as possible:
DevOps / k8s / PHP (f/m/*, 80%-100%, remote)
or
DevOps / k8s only (f/m/*, 40%-60%, remote)
Are you passionate about recent developments and new technologies? Are you interested in the mechanics of politics? As we share common values of diversity, we encourage ️anyone ️ to apply for this position.
PolitAnalytics is based on Symfony, React, and some more libraries. You will be the first devops person to join and interact with a fully agile team of back-end / front-end developers. Our tool is a comprehensive, reliable, fast, and independent platform that collects and processes open government data focusing on politics.
Your role is dedicated to long-term learning and self-developing, so you will be key in maintaining and expanding our platform. Therefore we offer competitive compensation based on your location, and additional benefits, depending on your needs and goals. We will work fully remote. Your role can be performed full time (80-100%) or part-time (40-60%) with great flexibility, we support flexible working arrangements as we are a family-friendly employer.
- Experience as a DevOps engineer in a scalable production environment.
- Setup and operate Kubernetes clusters using best practices (should know how to build architecture using the single concern principle, implement service communication, expose services outside the cluster and scale up when needed ).
- Knowledge about infrastructure monitoring and good understanding of metrics and tracking down performance issues.
- Build Docker images for production use cases.
- Excellent Linux knowledge (i.e. Alpine Linux quirks).
- Experience deploying medium sized production environments focused on limiting costs and providing high availability on GCP.
- Experience using Git for version control.
- Experience with CI/CD and automation technologies such as Ansible, Bitbucket Pipelines and/or Jenkins.
- Good PHP knowledge.
- Completed / well advanced education in computer science, programming, or applied informatics (university, technical college or similar) OR self-trained wizard with proven outstanding track record.
- Independent working habits.
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Ability and willingness to constantly improve and learn new skills.
- Very good command of English as our main working language. We are a team of good communicators within product design, back end, front end, business.
- Based in Europe / within CET (max. ± 2h) timezone, fully able (passport, visa) to travel internationally twice a year.
Your nice-to-haves:
- Very nice to have knowledge of Symfony.
- Passion about writing clean and optimized code.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platforms, like Terraform.
- AWS and/or other cloud providers (we currently use only google cloud but might utilize some managed services of other cloud providers)
- Experience in security monitoring
- German language skills are a plus, French and / or Italian language skills would be a super-plus
Our hiring process follows 2-3 interviews with a personal interview, some coding tasks within a given amount of time, a skills assessment interview, and a final HR / contracting interview.
Please send your application (CV, cover letter, portfolio link / track record of relevant projects) to Clemens Schuster,,jobs@politik.ch. Don’t hesitate to call / text / message at +41 76 540 52 88 to ask any questions.