IoT Platform Engineer in Zürich

IN SHORT

Are you ready to build the backbone of our smart workplace technology?

As our new Io T Platform Engineer (100%) in Zurich, you will own the transition of our hardware fleet into a highly reliable, streamlined system.

FELFEL puts smart fridges and coffee machines in offices across Switzerland and the US, and every line of code you write will run in a real workplace, serving real people every day.

• YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
• Own the device runtime on our fridges and coffee machine controllers (Gavettis) end to end, managing everything from zero-touch provisioning, device bootstrap, call-home and on-device applications.
• Drive the consolidation of our fleet management onto a single platform, making the architectural choices and defending them.
• Reduce the number of programming languages running on the edge, bringing our cloud and device environments closer together.
• Partner with the Head of Engineering to spec the next generation of fridge and Gavetti hardware, pick vendors, and define the software contracts.
• Manage and evolve vendor relationships and integrations for our vendors and badge reader suppliers.
• Act as the ultimate reality check on the engineering team for what is actually running and succeeding in the field.

YOUR PROFILE

• 5+ years of experience building production systems, with a proven track record of shipping and operating a real fleet of devices in production (handling real users, outages, and OTA updates).
• Strong working knowledge of edge platform concerns, including networking (VPNs, NAT, flaky links), Linux and Android on small hardware, OS-level debugging, and observability for offline-tolerant systems.
• Comfort and proficiency across at least two of the following languages: C#, Go, or Kotlin, with a willingness to standardize.
• Deep understanding of hardware as an interface, with the ability to navigate Modbus, USB, serial connections, sensor datasheets, and vendor SDKs.
• Experience with Balena, Azure Io T Hub, Kube Edge, Kubernetes, Docker, or containerized workloads is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with commercial appliance ecosystems (like coffee machines or vending) and enough electronics literacy to read a datasheet and ask the right questions.
• Pragmatic problem-solving mindset—you would rather standardize than invent, and you choose the boring, reliable tool over the purely interesting one.
• Fluency in English, German is nice to have
• Non-smoker - we don't want you to smell like cigarettes, neither at work nor at customer meetings. After all, FELFEL is about good food.
• Valid work permit or Swiss passport.
• OUR BENEFITS
• Lots of delicious food, just a few steps away from your desk - we make your gastronomic dreams come true
• Best barista coffee and tea for the whole team, thanks to our innovative Gavetti coffee machine
• 5 weeks holiday per year, as well as the chance to buy an extra week of vacation
• Two full weeks of 'work from anywhere' per year to bring more variety to your work day
• We care about your future with an above-mandatory pension fund
• New parents get 16 or 3 weeks, respectively, of fully paid parental leave.

We also support the return to work by making a generous financial contribution to childcare until the child reaches kindergarten age.

• We encourage our employees to use public transport by covering your half-fare travelcard
• Great team events, such as our well-known FELFEL Summer Outing
• Stay active and healthy with our weekly sports sessions

ABOUT US

FELFEL is all about good food and coffee in the workplace: we help Swiss employers become masters of hospitality.

With our smart fridge 'FELFEL' and delicious barista coffee 'Gavetti', we enable companies to provide their employees with first-class, ultra-fresh food and drinks throughout the day.

Whether hearty and traditional, modern and vegan or high in protein - our weekly changing menu ensures that all employees always have something to be excited about ;).

FELFEL is a family business that was founded in 2013.

Today, we take care of around 1000 locations in Switzerland, and have 150 employees across our offices in Lausanne, Zurich and New York.

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