Mendix Application Engineer

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow's markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

Are you a Mendix expert who enjoys keeping applications running smoothly and evolving them over time? Do you thrive on ensuring reliability, scalability, and quality — while working across multiple clients and applications?

At Zühlke, we are looking for a Mendix Application Engineer (Operations & Lifecycle Focus) who takes ownership of Mendix solutions in their live phase. You'll be responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and enhancing multiple Mendix applications across different clients and industries. This role blends operational excellence with hands-on development — ensuring that what we build continues to deliver value every day.

Join Zühlke and be part of a diverse team that ensures Mendix applications remain robust, secure, and continuously improving long after go-live. You'll work across multiple clients and industries, with plenty of room to grow your expertise in both low-code development and modern cloud operations.

If you're ready to take ownership of Mendix applications in their live phase — while helping shape their future — apply now

Your Role

• Take responsibility for the operation and lifecycle management of multiple Mendix applications in production across various clients.
• Ensure the reliability, performance, and security of live Mendix solutions through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and optimization.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents quickly, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable fixes.
• Collaborate with clients to understand evolving business needs and implement continuous improvements and new features.
• Participate in development projects to bring your operational perspective into the design and build phase, ensuring applications are maintainable and scalable.
• Manage deployments, environment configurations, and release processes in coordination with DevOps and platform teams.
• Automate repetitive tasks and improve observability through scripting, tooling, and monitoring solutions.
• Contribute to best practices, documentation, and knowledge sharing within Zühlke's low-code community.

Your Talent

• Proven experience in Mendix application development and a strong focus on operations, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Hands-on experience running Mendix applications in production — monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing live systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps) and cloud environments (Mendix Cloud, AWS, or Azure).
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, integrations, and system connectivity.
• Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving skills with a focus on root cause analysis and long-term reliability.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with developers, operations teams, and clients.
• Proactive attitude — you anticipate issues, automate where possible, and always look for improvement opportunities.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Fluency in English. German is a plus.

What we offer

• Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company's success in the previous year
• Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.
• Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We're empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future. To dive deeper into local benefits of working in Zühlke follow the link

If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application  

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.