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We’re looking for an experienced platform/cloud engineer to help own and evolve our Azure-based platform. You’ll work at the boundary between infrastructure and product teams, introducing IaC and enabling developers to provision cloud services safely and independently. Together with our on-prem services, this forms the foundation of Switzerland’s largest comparison platform: comparis.ch.
Tech: Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), IaC (Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), cloud networking, observability (Prometheus, Grafana), GitOps (Argo CD)
Team: Part of the IT team, working with sysadmins and support
Location: Zurich, hybrid (min. 2 days onsite)
Type: Full-time
About Us:
comparis.ch is Switzerland’s leading comparison platform. For over 25 years, we’ve been comparing health insurers, telecom providers, banks and more and offer an online marketplace for cars and property. With 80 million visits annually, we are among the most visited Swiss websites
Role Overview:
You join one of our scrum teams to build our web applications and help to pave our way to the cloud. You’ll work on .NET backends and React (next.js) frontends with the newer apps hosted on Azure and our legacy apps in our DC.
The position is fully remote and available in timezones +/- 2 hours from Europe/Zurich.
Comparis | https://www.comparis.ch | Full Stack Developer (.NET & React) | Full-Time (80-100%) | Remote or Hybrid (Zurich, Switzerland)
About Us:
comparis.ch is Switzerland’s leading comparison platform. For over 25 years, we’ve been comparing health insurers, telecom providers, banks and more and offer an online marketplace for cars and property. With 80 million visits annually, we are among the most visited Swiss websites
Role Overview:
You join one of our scrum teams to build our web applications and help to pave our way to the cloud. You’ll work on .NET backends and React (Next.js) frontends with the newer apps hosted on Azure and our legacy apps in our DC.
We have open positions with either fully remote or hybrid working mode. Fully remote is available in timezones +/- 2 hours from Europe/Zurich. For the hybrid position here in Zurich, we cannot offer relocation or visa sponsorship and expect people to be in the office >= 1d per week.
I never thought, I'd read again about ZMODEM and Kermit. To learn programming and dive more into C/C++, I implemented both protocols while writing a Windows application to transfer files from the PC to a HP48 graphics calculator over the serial port in ca. 1999. This app then became the "official" PC link program "HPComm", released under the GPL. Almost 25 years go... :-o
Company I was doing work for was looking at handheld solutions for on site data collection. One of the things they were looking at was something from Symbol. Nice unit, but, $2k a pop.
I was out visiting my father who happened to have an HP-48, which I had not seen before.
Fiddling with it I managed to learn quite a bit about its (now legendary) capabilities. But I was quite surprised to learn it had a serial port and support for Kermit.
Returning home, I bought one and quickly prototyped a solution for the company, where they’d upload the data from the calculators each day straight to the HP-9000 via Kermit.
You could buy the HP-48 base model for $100, and they ran forever on AAA batteries. We ended up rolling out the project and they bought a dozen of them.
That was a really fun project. I coded much of the calculator code lying in bed.
One convenient usecase for me is to generate model classes from a sample JSON document: "please create me a java class using lombok from this JSON: {...}"
Also vice versa: "create a JSON document with sample data from this java model class: "public class Person {String name; ...}"
localsearch.ch | Fullstack Engineer | ONSITE in Zurich, Switzerland | Full Time
We're looking for two fullstack engineers here in Zurich to join the local.ch engineering team at localsearch (Swisscom Directories AG). We're developing and maintaining local.ch, which is a well known business directory, that's among the top 5 media sites here in Switzerland regarding traffic. Help us to develop a great user experience in our Next.js based frontend stack and to build a solid backend with Go and Java (Spring/Java 17).
We're following a hybrid work model, where we're at least 60% in the office and up to 40% at home.
