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Senior Software Engineer – Team Lead (Wädenswil, hybrid home/office)

Creoptix AG, a brand of Malvern Panalytical, provides the next-generation bioanalytical instruments based on the proprietary Grating-Coupled-Interferometry (GCI) technology. Our products support drug discovery and life science research across industry and academia.

Our instruments combine advanced opto-mechatronic engineering with sophisticated software, enabling precise and reliable bioanalytical measurements. To expand our inter-disciplinary R&D team based in Wädenswil we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Team Lead.

Your role and responsibilities

In this hybrid role, you will lead a small core team of experienced software and data science professionals while contributing directly as a hands‑on developer (approximately 60–80% development, 20–40% leadership). You will report to the R&D Manager.

As Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate with hardware/software engineers and application scientists to translate domain‑specific requirements and use cases into robust technical designs.
• Drive architectural improvements to ensure scalability, maintainability, and future readiness.
• Develop new features while ensuring backward compatibility and a consistent user experience.
• Maintain and refactor existing codebases with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and clean coding practices.

As Team Lead, you will:

• Work closely with the product manager, other team members, and broader stakeholders to define and prioritize product features.
• Liaise with external project partners to define and coordinate their contributions.
• Organize and contribute to DevOps processes including feature and milestone planning, user-stories, code reviews, testing, retrospectives and documentation.
• Facilitate alignment between software development and hardware/applications development workstreams.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication ability in English.
• Proven experience in object-oriented design and clean coding practices
• Experience in DevOps processes and tools, ideally within Azure.
• Proficiency in C# and modern .NET frameworks (WPF preferred).
• Strong sense of ownership and attention to code quality.
• Eligibility to work in Switzerland.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience as software development lead or software product owner is a strong plus.
• Experience with asynchronous programming and memory management.
• Knowledge of API design, performance tuning, and embedded systems.
• Multi-language development experience (e.g., Rust, Julia, Python, C++).
• Experience with scientific instrumentation, real-time data processing.
• Experience with other biomolecular interaction analysis techniques (e.g., SPR, BLI).
• Experience with deploying data science or ML models in production.

What we offer

• A collaborative, interdisciplinary team of experts in engineering, physics, data science, and biochemistry. Most team members hold a Ph.D.
• A culture of innovation, ownership, professionalism, and continuous learning.
• Opportunities to work on cutting-edge technology with real-world impact.

About us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps.
Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies.

We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.

Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure.

Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide- range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery. Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity.

SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments.
We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support.

We are part of Spectris. Spectris combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world. Precision is at the heart of what we do – our leading, high-tech instruments and software equip our customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive.

Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics & SciAps
Your Partners in Discovery

Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps, part of the Spectris Group, are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Changing the world isn’t something you can do on your own, or with a single way of thinking; it takes a wide collection of experiences, stories, knowledge, and expertise. We encourage applications from underrepresented individuals and people with diverse backgrounds. Although we always select the most qualified applicant for each role and make all decisions without regard to race, sex, age, or any other protected class, we are an inclusive, equal opportunity organization that prizes diversity. Your unique perspective is important to us.