To further grow our Akenza team in Zurich , we are currently looking for a Software Engineer.

Joining akenza not only means stepping into the future of technology but also ensures a secure and fulfilling career path. For this position, the total rewards package consists of a fixed pay, performance-based bonus, and equity participation.

Interested in shaping the future of a fast-growing IoT platform? Then schedule an initial interview with us now by submitting your CV!

Job details

You will be part of our product development team that is responsible for developing, releasing, monitoring and troubleshooting our large-scale microservice-based IoT platform. You enjoy learning new things and are passionate about developing data-intensive applications. You will be implementing new features, maintaining existing code, fixing bugs, and contributing to overall system design. You are thriving to make a change in a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities.

If you are ready for this challenge, we would be more than happy to meet you!

Your responsibilities

• Help ensure that our IoT platform scales to large amounts of data and runs securely and reliably
• Implement new features and maintain existing code with focus on scalability, stability and security
• Design, develop, release and troubleshoot state of the art microservices in a distributed team
• Work closely with both Engineering Lead and Product Owner to understand the problems we want to solve and exploring how we can best solve them

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• A minimum of two years experience in backend development
• Experience with software development in one or more programming languages (preferably Java)
• Experience with stream processing architectures and data-intensive applications (e.g. Kafka)
• Good understanding of microservice patterns
• Passionate about implementing software engineering best practices and processes
• Solid knowledge of testing principles
• Troubleshooting and creative problem-solving attitude
• Take ownership and act independently in solving problems
• Enjoy daily communication and interaction with customers and colleagues in both English and German

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• Experience building and developing distributed systems and/or experience with compute and data storage technologies
• Experience with IoT technologies (such as LoRaWAN, Nb-IoT, MQTT, or LWM2M)
• Experience in reactive programming (e.g. Java Reactor)
• In-depth knowledge of software development best practices, Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD
• Experience with systems for automating deployment and management of containerized applications like Kubernetes

Our offer

• A team-oriented work culture with a flat hierarchy and a lot of personal responsibility
• Work in an international team of talented engineers
• Opportunity to have an impact on the growth of a B2B SaaS product
• Honest, no-bullshit attitude
• A fast growing scale-up culture
• Work in the future market of IoT

Who are we

Akenza AG is a growing Swiss IoT software company headquartered in Zurich Oerlikon and consists of a team of almost 30 people.

You will be part of the product development team that is responsible for developing, releasing, monitoring and troubleshooting the large-scale microservice-based IoT platform. You can expect a friendly team that always supports each other and maintains a very open and collegial atmosphere. The corporate culture is characterized by flat hierarchies, direct communication, and transparency at all levels. You will be given plenty of room for individual development, both professionally and personally.

• Reports to: Head of Software
• Colleagues: 10
• Team Language: English & German

We believe that the Internet of Things will fundamentally improve our lives. Our goal is to enable system integrators, service providers and enterprises to quickly realize their IoT projects by providing them with a powerful and scalable IoT platform that makes rolling out an IoT deployment as easy as possible.

Locations

Zürich

Remote status

Hybrid