Senior Software Engineer Python

The 21st century needs a 21st century healthcare system. To help build this, our client, a global Pharmaceutical company in Kaiseraugstis not only develop personalized medicine and advanced diagnostics, but also heavily investing in 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.

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.

• Latest
  
  Start Date:
  
  1.08.26
• Planned duration: 12 months
• Extension: possible
• Home Office: up to 3 days remote

• 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

• 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

• Interest in or experience with tools such as Hashi Corp Vault, FluxCD, Kustomize, Terraform, Grafana, Git Lab, Slack, and Linear

If you are interested in this opportunity, we look forward to receiving your CV or if you have any questions, contact Elaine Kanwar at .

Due to Swiss work permit restrictions, we can only consider applications from EU citizens or holders of valid working permit in Switzerland.