Senior Software Engineer

For our customer located in Kaiseraugst/Switzerland we are currently looking for a: Senior Software Engineer (Python) (m/f/d)

General Information:

• Start date: asap
• latest Start Date: 1.08.26
• Planned duration: 31.12.26 (short term assignment) / 12 months (long term assignment)
• Extension: possible
• Workplace: Kaiseraugst
• Workload: 80-100%
• Home Office: up to 3 days remote
• Team: 9

The perfect candidate:

With this position we are looking for a skilled software engineer, who brings a lot of motivation

and willingness to take on responsibility for entire software projects, from design to

implementation and deployment!

Ideally you bring significant experience (5+ years) in software engineering on large-scale

projects or high-growth environments (any language), with your more recent work focusing on

Python.

Tasks & Responsibilities

Background:

The 21st century needs a 21st century healthcare system. To help build this, Our Client is not only

developing personalized medicine and advanced diagnostics, but also heavily investing into

software and digital solutions. To speed up medical processes, make them safer and more

accessible to a wide range of people.

The team you're joining is running Kubernetes operations at a large scale. Think of deploying

and managing thousands, even tens-of-thousands of Kubernetes clusters around the world.

That requires end-to-end automation, APIs, great user experience (UIs) and rock-solid

orchestration.

If you are excited to shape the way healthcare is working in the coming decade, we would love

to welcome you in our highly skilled team - which strives to become a role model for the entire

Industry.

• Coding! ... including contributions to open source software that we use or maintain!
• Writing and implementing design documents (RFCs)
• Documenting your creations, as well as ensuring great automated test coverage
• Serving as a role model - and helping the team to follow software engineering best-practices

Must Haves

• Highly motivated Software Engineer with ownership mindset
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally in large-scale or high-growth environments *****
• Strong background in scalable systems and modern engineering practices *****
• Recent hands-on experience with Python*****
• Business domain: compute infrastructure & platforms
• Experience with Kubernetes (usage, concepts, and operations) *****
• Familiarity with public cloud environments such as AWS
• Experience in test automation, ideally with pytest
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and eager to take responsibility
• English fluent is a MUST

Nice to Haves

• Interest in or experience with tools such as HashiCorp Vault, FluxCD, Kustomize, Terraform, Grafana, GitLab, Slack, and Linear