Apprenticeship in Application Development, Informatiker:in EFZ, August 2026

A professional team of vocational trainers (Berufsbildner:innen) will guide and support you during your 4-year apprenticeship with Google. After a 1-year foundation course (Basislehrjahr) you will join your Google team in Zurich and will be fully engaged in existing and new projects that will challenge you and lay the foundation for a successful future as an Application Developer. As a Computer Scientist apprentice focused on Application Development, you'll dive into software design and development, working alongside various front-end and back-end teams across Google's product suite. This immersive experience will expose you to the diverse roles and career paths within this dynamic field. Google is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to address some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another. Minimum qualifications: – Graduate of the highest level of secondary school. – Academic grades in the average of 4.5 or higher. – Completed Multicheck Junior ICT report. – Ability to communicate in English and German fluently, to interact with stakeholders and schools. Preferred qualifications: – Passion for new technologies and a strong motivation to learn. – Experience and strong interest in writing code. – Genuine enthusiasm for reading technical texts. – Demonstrated logical and abstract thinking. – Intention to pursue the Berufsmaturitätsschule (BM1) during the apprenticeship. – Authorization to work in Switzerland. – Proactively analyze a range of problems, identify potential solutions, and implement them effectively. – Foster strong collaboration within your team, clearly communicating ideas and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical colleagues. – Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code that aligns with project requirements, and conduct solid testing to ensure functionality and reliability.