Software Engineer, Managed Services

Founded in Switzerland in 1968 Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner with engineering and innovation in our DNA. Were trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrows markets customers and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation digital solutions and applications and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex regulated spaces including health and finance connecting strategy tech implementation and operational services to help clients become more effective resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work for the right reasons we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

Youll join a growing practice that runs application support and operations across 20 clients covering Python and TypeScript/ stacks. Your primary assignment will be two Java applications for a Swiss federal regulatory authority but youll also contribute to other engagements as the team and portfolio evolve.

Were building an AI-first operations model. That means we actively use AI tooling (coding assistants automated log analysis AI-assisted incident triage) in daily work and we expect you to push that boundary further. If youre the kind of engineer who builds scripts and automations to eliminate repetitive work and who reaches for AI tools before doing things manually youll fit right in.

Your first assignment involves two Java applications with very different stacks: one modern cloud-native system on Java 25 / Spring Boot 4 one legacy Java EE monolith in maintenance mode. Over time you may rotate into or TypeScript/ engagements depending on team needs and your profile.

This is not greenfield development but its not just keeping the lights on either.

Beyond day-to-day support these engagements include product evolution: new features regulatory adaptations and system improvements driven by real user needs. Youll have the opportunity to shape how applications grow not only how they run. If you want impact beyond the run phase this is where you get it.

What Youll Do

• Investigate and resolve L3 incidents (root cause analysis fixes regression testing)
• Apply security patches and manage CVE remediation
• Coordinate releases with infrastructure partners and the client
• Maintain and extend automated test suites
• Document operational procedures and runbooks
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Build domain knowledge in client-specific business domains
• Use AI tools actively in your workflow: code generation log analysis incident triage test creation documentation
• Identify and implement automation opportunities that reduce manual operational effort
• Contribute to building our AI-assisted operations model

What Were Looking For

Must have:

• 3 years of professional Java development (any version from 8 to 25)
• Experience with at least one of: Spring Boot or Java EE / Jakarta EE
• Relational database experience (PostgreSQL or Oracle)
• Comfortable reading and maintaining code you didnt write
• Experience working in application support maintenance or operations (not just greenfield)
• Active use of AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot Claude Cursor or similar) in your daily work
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Good written English. German is a significant plus for client communication but not a requirement.

Strong plus:

• Second language: Python C#/.NET or TypeScript/ (you may rotate into projects on these stacks)
• Spring Boot 3 or 4 (dependency injection Spring Security Spring Data JPA scheduled tasks)
• PostgreSQL with JSONB or non-relational data patterns
• Java EE / WebLogic administration and deployment
• Oracle database (PL/SQL DB scripts change-controlled procedures)
• Observability and monitoring experience (setting up logging alerting dashboards defining SLIs/SLOs)
• CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins or similar)
• Container orchestration (Kubernetes/AKS Helm Istio)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
• Frontend experience ( React or Angular) for full-stack delivery
• Experience in regulated industries (pharma medtech public sector finance)
• DDD onion/hexagonal architecture OpenAPI-first design
• Experience building automations scripts or bots that reduce manual ops work
• Familiarity with AI/ML APIs LLM integration or building AI-assisted workflows

What We Offer

• Long-term stable engagement across a portfolio of Swiss clients
• Work on systems that directly impact public health insurance and infrastructure in Switzerland
• Small team with high autonomy
• AI-first culture: we invest in AI tooling and expect you to shape how we use it
• Rotation opportunities across Java Python engagements
• Structured knowledge transfer and domain training during onboarding

If you feel you dont meet all the requirements we are still happy to get to know you learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!

We welcome people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender personality national origin race religion colour sexual orientation gender identity age marital status disability or veteran status.