IoT Platform Engineer

IN SHORT

Are you ready to build the backbone of our smart workplace technology? As our new IoT 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 IoT Hub, KubeEdge, 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.

www.felfel.ch