Software Developers in Switzerland
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Marco Skulschus
Last position:
Business Analyst, Data Warehouse Developer at NRW.Bank
Business analysis for risk controlling.
Development of a data warehouse based on MS SQL Server with data from the FIS Cross-Asset Trading and Risk Platform (formerly Front Arena).
Implementation of ETL and transformation logic with T-SQL and Python (template engine Jinja2).
Modeling and automation of data structures with Data Vault.
Building reporting and analysis reports with Microsoft Power BI, including training and onboarding of users.
Christoph Pardon
Last position:
ICT DevSecOps Engineer at Abraxas Informatik AG
Reduced time-to-market by optimizing CI/CD pipelines. Employees without customer VM access can now deploy. Increased system stability and performance and reduced maintenance effort through systematic database cleanup. Restricted rights for Flyway migrations versus service users. Improved transparency and decision-making basis with enhanced Grafana dashboards for response times, optimized logging, and standardization with Loki. Reduced security risks by consistently applying security best practices such as removing the public schema in PostgreSQL, individual service user permissions, and Docker security context. Facilitated knowledge transfer and sustainable process improvements by creating process diagrams and implementing various concepts. Conducted code reviews across multiple repositories.
Alexander Scholl
Last position:
Senior ABAP-OO Developer at Die Schweizerische Post AG
"ZLF – Future Billing Solution"
Cross-module S/4HANA
- Technical consulting and development in the area of S/4 Master Data Governance (MDG-BP)
- Various developments in HR-BP integration, order-to-cash, SAP CAR analytics data modeling, interfaces from and to third-party systems. (native HANA, CDS, RAP, Fiori Elements, OData)
Sabahattin Kunas
Last position:
Fullstack Developer at Swisslife
Role: Senior Developer, Architecture, Lead Developer
Senior Developer: Monolith → REST Architecture Redesign of several EJB monoliths into scalable REST services. Architecture, schema and framework decisions (OpenAPI, Flyway, Camunda) while keeping the legacy interfaces. OpenAPI · Camunda · Flyway · EJB → REST
Senior Developer: New development of InvestEasy Financial retirement advisory software (2nd/3rd pillar) in line with Swiss regulations: tax country, origin of funds, beneficiaries, citizenship. Fund selection based on risk profiling. Spring Boot · Quarkus · React · TWIN signature · video identification · OpenAPI · Camunda
Team Lead: Redesign of mortgage financing Migration EJB → microservices with direct REST calls for external partners (before: email). Incident reduction from ~100 to 2–5 per week through Visitor pattern and type-safe data validation in pure Java. REST · Microservices · Design Patterns · Clean Code
Developer / Architecture: Partner portal – Lead Developer & operations (approx. 2400 active users) Sole responsibility for further development and operation of the broker platform (commissions, employee administration, customer master data). Liferay migration to 2026.Q1, Onelogin OIDC, React frontend redesign, Azure DevOps pipeline and AI-supported development with Claude Code CLI. Ensuring maintenance cycles. Liferay · OSGI · React · TypeScript · Azure DevOps · OIDC · Claude Code · 2026.Q1
Skills: Java 17/21, CDI, React, JSF, T-SQL, PrimeFaces, OmniFaces, Shell Script, OSGI, Felix, REST, OpenAPI, GraphQL, Python, TDD, unit tests, Clean Code, Docker, Quarkus, SQL, SMTP, WSDL, DevOps, XML, Bourne-again shell, bash, Z shell
Products used: IntelliJ, WildFly, Linux, CSS3, Docker, Elastic Search, Spring Core, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Git, GitHub, Azure, Apache Lucene, Docker Compose, Camunda, OSGI, MS SQL Server, REST, HTML5, JavaScript, OpenAPI 3, Spring, Spring Batch, Liferay, Azure DevOps, ELK, Kibana, Ehcache, SonarQube, SSL, ConfigSeeder, Bash, Shell Script
Detlef Witt
Last position:
Sourcing Manager at BEDAG Informatik AG
- Solely responsible for managing procurement operations
- WTO tenders in an open procedure
- Invitation process
- Direct call-offs and mini-tenders from framework contracts
- Simap.ch, SuisseOffer.ch, Confluence, Jira, Microsoft 365 applications
Reinhold Schätz
Last position:
Senior Software Developer at Hitachi Energy
- Support and further development of the Leegoo Builder
- Handling ad hoc requests
- Definition of rules/attributes and their rules
- Optimizing and managing SQL queries
Peter Sacco
Last position:
Web Application Developer PHP / WordPress Plugin Development at Gemeinde Bauma
- Analysis, consulting, and development of a WordPress application for the digital processing and delivery of the Bauma chronicle archive
Yassin Ben Khalifa
Last position:
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at Schweizerweg Gmbh
- Designed and executed automated and manual test cases for REST APIs and UI workflows using Selenide, Selenium, and Postman.
- Developed and maintained Gatling-based performance tests for simulating user load and validating system responsiveness and stability under stress.
- Integrated test suites into CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, enabling rapid and reliable delivery cycles.
- Employed Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus to monitor logs, track metrics, and perform in-depth application performance monitoring (APM).
- Utilized Swagger for validating and documenting API contracts and ensuring consistency across environments.
- Created and managed isolated test environments using Docker, enabling reproducible and consistent test execution.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams using Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket for agile planning, documentation, and version control.
- Worked in a Java/Spring Boot tech stack, leveraging Maven for project build automation and IntelliJ IDEA for development and debugging.
Key Achievements:
- Built a reusable Selenide-based UI automation framework that reduced test creation time by over 50%.
- Automated end-to-end test scenarios for critical business workflows, increasing test coverage and release confidence.
- Designed a modular Gatling load testing framework, used for continuous performance benchmarking.
- Detected and resolved several critical production performance issues through proactive APM and stress testing.
Michael Tille
Last position:
Senior Consultant, Developer, Business Analyst at Swiss Army, Federal Office for Informatics
- Maintained PeopleSoft HCM 9.2/Tools 9.59.08 for batch and interface programs
- Used Application Designer, Application Engine/Packages, PeopleCode
- Developed BI/Excel reporting and proof of concept
- Performed business analysis, SQL reports and documentation
Csaba Kéri
Last position:
ServiceNow Consultant at DXC
- Worked in mixed teams with several clients
- Performed requirement engineering, proposal and time estimation
- Developed ACLs, business rules, flows, workflows, catalog items, various scripts, UI actions, policies, scoped applications
- Customized mobile apps: Now Agent and Now Mobile
- Implemented integrations using the Integration Hub
- Coordinated continuously with clients during development
- Performed testing and helped clients with testing
- Deployed to production and applied main version upgrades and patches
- Managed CMDB, domain separation and asset management
- Integrated between instances at different clients
- Developed GlideScript: business rules, scripted REST endpoints, extension points, fix scripts, background scripts
Thomas Müllerleile
Last position:
Developer/Analyst at Nvaria GmbH
- Analyzed migration strategies after Camunda 7 was declared end of life with extended support until 2030.
- Evaluated potential migrations to Camunda 8, Flowable, and Operaton.
- Conducted a proof of concept demonstrating that existing projects could be migrated to both Flowable and Operaton.
- BPMN
- DMN
- Confluence
- Flowable
- Operaton
Oleksii Bondarenko
Last position:
Blockchain Developer (freelance) at Self-Employed
- Developed ERC20 smart contracts with a mechanism for vesting, including deployment, testing, and auditing.
- Wrote a JavaScript application for managing transactions in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and SEPOLIA with a custom token.
Felix Schmidt
Last position:
Senior iOS Developer at Commerzbank AG
- The comdirect app for iOS offers an intuitive and user-friendly mobile banking app that allows users to manage their banking efficiently and securely.
- Central features: bank transfers, portfolio analysis, personalized financial manager to facilitate daily banking and financial planning.
- Users: over 1 million.
- Written in native Swift using UIKit and SwiftUI.
- App-wide MVVM and Coordinator design pattern.
- Partial reactive programming using Apple’s Combine framework or vendor RxSwift.
- API integrations and data structures with JSON.
- Documented clean code.
- Continuous integration with Git and Jenkins.
- High unit test coverage with XCTest.
- Agile project setup according to Scrum.
Daniel Lisak
Last position:
SQL, .NET and VBA Developer at Postfinance AG
- For the internal MIS, which gathers data in a complex, comprehensive system landscape and loads it into a central database via ETL, existing processes and packages had to be maintained and new KPIs analyzed, specified, and implemented.
Georgios Sfakianakis
Last position:
Senior Software Engineer at UBS Bank
- Implementations of a code refactoring framework able to refactor thousands of repositories leveraging Generative AI
- Use Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI), Java and Typescript in Azure Cloud (Data Lake, VMs, AI) and GitLab infrastructure
- Mentoring and pair programming
- Obtained Azure AI-900 and AI-102 certifications
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Software Developers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Government and Administration
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
96%
Master's degree or higher
60%
Doctorate
12%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
97%
Based on our profile pool as of 26 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates for Software Developers in Switzerland
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 26 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the role
What they build
Software developers turn business needs into working code. They design features, fix defects, and ship stable releases that fit existing systems. Typical deliverables include web applications, backend services, APIs, mobile app modules, internal tools, and automation scripts.
Core skills
- Clean implementation in modern languages and frameworks
- Debugging, refactoring, and code review
- REST and event-driven API work
- Database modeling and query optimization
- Testing, deployment support, and release fixes
- Clear handover to product, design, and engineering teams
When companies hire
Companies bring in a freelance software developer when delivery cannot wait for a full hiring cycle, when a project needs a specific stack, or when the team needs extra hands for a release, migration, or rescue project. In Switzerland, this is common for banks, insurers, industrial firms, and digital product teams that need reliable delivery in English and, where needed, German or French collaboration.
Tools and stacks
A strong software developer works confidently with languages and frameworks such as Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C#, PHP, or Kotlin, depending on the product. They also use Git, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, issue trackers, and test tools to keep changes traceable and production-ready.
What good looks like
Good developers do more than write code. They understand requirements, ask the right questions, document decisions, and spot risks early. They keep changes small, readable, and maintainable, and they know when to improve an existing system instead of rebuilding it.
Typical project fit
Freelance software developers are a strong fit for feature builds, legacy modernization, platform integrations, urgent bug fixing, and temporary team extension. They also help when a company needs a senior programmer or software engineer to review architecture, set coding standards, or guide a module through delivery.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about Software Developers — answered in short.
A Software Developer turns product requirements into code that works in production. That can mean building new features, improving an existing application, fixing defects, or connecting systems through APIs. The exact scope depends on whether the team needs feature delivery, maintenance, or technical rescue.
Look for strong coding ability, debugging skills, and a good grasp of testing and version control. A solid software developer should also understand the stack used in your product, whether that is backend, frontend, mobile, or cloud work. Just as important is the ability to read existing code and work inside an established team setup.
In practice, the titles are often used interchangeably, especially in freelance hiring. A software engineer may sound slightly broader and more system-oriented, while software developer is often used for hands-on implementation work. For most projects, what matters is the person’s actual experience with your stack and delivery needs.
Freelance hiring makes sense when the need is urgent, time-bound, or tied to a specific stack or project phase. A software developer is often the right choice for migrations, release support, prototype work, or temporary capacity gaps. It is also useful when you want to test a collaboration before making a long-term commitment.
That depends on the project, but common choices include Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, C#, PHP, and Kotlin. A good software developer should also be comfortable with Git, testing tools, databases, and CI/CD. The best fit is someone who has already worked in a similar technical setup, not just someone who knows the language name.
Yes, many projects can be handled remotely if communication, access, and security are set up properly. For companies in Switzerland, this works well for product teams that collaborate in English and manage delivery through clear tickets, reviews, and regular check-ins. On-site presence is still useful for sensitive systems, workshops, or close work with local stakeholders.
Review the person’s past systems, not just their CV. A strong developer can explain design choices, trade-offs, testing strategy, and how they handled bugs or production issues. Ask for examples of code quality, handover habits, and how they work with product and engineering teams.
The terms overlap a lot, but programmer usually points more directly to writing code, while software developer covers the wider delivery work around it. A programmer may be hired for focused coding tasks, while a software developer is often expected to handle implementation, debugging, testing, and collaboration. For freelance work, the real question is whether the person can ship the part of the product you need.
The average hourly rate for Software Developers in Switzerland is 111 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 891 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Software Developers in Switzerland, 96% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 60% hold at least a Master's degree, and 12% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as Software Developers in Switzerland have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Software Developers in Switzerland are German (94%), English (94%), and French (34%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Software Developers in Switzerland are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (69%), and Government and Administration (54%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Software Developers in Switzerland are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (97%), and Quality Assurance (51%).
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