Software Architect 80 - 100% (m/f/d)

Medgate AG; Switzerland; Hybrid; CHF 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Data platform ownership

International team

Job summary

Medgate AG is seeking an experienced Software Architect to lead cross-team technical direction across its telemedicine ecosystem. You will own architecture consistency, negotiate trade-offs with product owners and medical/compliance stakeholders, and drive scalable, compliant solutions across Azure, privacy and AI-enabled workflows.

You will mentor teams, run architecture reviews, and shape how integration with partners evolves. Fluent English is required; German/French an advantage.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with architecture or cross-team technical leadership.
• Hands-on background in modern backend and web stacks (.NET/EF Core, React SPAs) to challenge implementations.
• Solid experience with server-side GraphQL and data/analytics, Azure, IaC and security.

Responsibilities

• Own ecosystem architecture and trade-offs across multiple engineering teams.
• Provide technical vetoes on architecture decisions considering business and regulatory constraints.
• Lead upstream requirements discussions and assess costs to build and run options.
• Align architecture, security, and data residency with Compliance.
• Run cross-team design and architecture reviews to prevent technical debt.
• Evaluate build-or-buy options and estimate long-term costs.
• Maintain shared technical standards and decision records across projects.
• Serve as technical counterpart for integration partners from feasibility to integration.
• Advise leadership on scalability and platform-level implications before major initiatives.
• Shape AI-assisted engineering workflow evolution across teams and repositories.

Skills

Software architecture

Backend development

Frontend development

GraphQL

Data & cloud

Security

English fluency

Architecture leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

Terraform

HotChocolate (ChilliCream)

Genesys or similar telephony integration

Job description

For 26 years, Medgate has been bringing doctors directly to patients 24/7 thanks to telemedicine. At Medgate Switzerland, more than 300 motivated employees - including over 130 permanently employed doctors - are actively shaping the medicine of tomorrow with the help of future-oriented digital health solutions.

Those who treat patients remotely at Medgate receive intensive training in telemedicine at the beginning. The medical guidelines developed for the needs of telemedicine and continuously refined over the years are practice-oriented and designed for remote treatment. The patient management system supports doctors in their treatment by using artificial intelligence, among other things. This means that doctors have less administrative work and can focus more specifically on their patients. The medicine of the future is already a reality at Medgate.

With flexible working models and reliable duty scheduling, Medgate makes it easy to combine work, leisure and family life.

About the role

Medgate's technical ecosystem spans multiple platforms and components: Sofia (our core patient management system), partner-facing intake channels, mobile applications, data and analytics, internal tools, and prototypes still proving whether they belong in production. Each of them has its own history, constraints and reasons for existing. As Software Architect you work across all of it: two architects for five engineering teams, sharing the full scope between you.

You own the consistency of that ecosystem, the trade-offs between its parts, and the hard calls that span more than one team.

You hold a technical veto on architecture decisions, exercised in a room where commercial, medical and regulatory constraints carry their own weight. A large part of the role is spent upstream, while requirements are still being shaped, negotiating those trade-offs with the people who carry them: product owners, business stakeholders, medical and compliance. Getting a technically sound answer accepted by all of them is the job itself.

• Work upstream in the requirements process (PRD), establishing what each option costs to build and to run, what it commits us to later, and which one holds up once the commercial, medical and regulatory constraints are applied.
• Align architecture, security and data residency decisions with our internal Compliance team.
• Advise on which stack, pattern or vendor fits a given component or platform across Medgate's ecosystem, weighing each case on its own merits, with the incumbent stack as one option among several.
• Run cross-team design and architecture reviews that catch coupling, duplicated logic and inconsistencies between modules or projects before they harden into technical debt, independently of any single product owner's roadmap.
• Establish which build-or-buy options genuinely remain once vendor delivery model, data residency and existing licences have narrowed the field - and what each one costs to live with.
• Challenge existing architecture choices when a new problem's context calls for a fresh answer - and confirm them where they still hold, once actually tested against the new case.
• Maintain a lightweight, living set of shared technical standards and decision records, so settled trade-offs stay settled from one project to the next.
• Act as the technical counterpart for integration partners, from first feasibility discussion through to a working integration.
• Advise engineering leadership and product owners on scalability, integration risk and platform-level consequences ahead of major initiatives, in terms a business stakeholder can weigh in on.
• Take a system-level view of where and how Medgate's AI-assisted engineering workflow (Claude Code and its multi-agent pipeline) should evolve across teams and repositories, distinct from any one team's day-to-day use of it.

Your profile

Must have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including a genuine track record in architecture or cross-team technical leadership roles.
• Hands-on-enough background in modern backend and web stacks (.NET/EF Core, React-based SPAs) to credibly challenge concrete implementation choices, while implementation itself stays with the teams.
• Solid experience with server-side GraphQL, including schema composition.
• Working command of data and analytics, data flows, cloud infrastructure (Azure), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and security. Enough to hold a defensible position in each, across five teams with distinct technology profiles.
• Experience identifying and resolving architectural drift and duplicated patterns across teams (e.g. two teams solving the same problem in two different ways) and turning that into a remediation call that was actually carried out.
• Fluent English, spoken and written. German or French is a strong advantage.
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with HotChocolate (ChilliCream).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Experience with Genesys or another telephony / contact-center integration.
• Experience shaping how agentic / AI-assisted engineering workflows (skills, multi-agent pipelines, review gates) should be governed across multiple teams.
• Experience in healthcare, insurance or another highly regulated industry, where architecture decisions carry direct GDPR/nLPD/HIPAA-type consequences - including first-hand experience negotiating design constraints with a compliance function.

What we offer

• Work on meaningful projects that help shape the future of digital healthcare.
• Modern cloud-native technology stack including Azure Databricks, dbt, Power BI and AI-powered engineering tools.
• Hybrid working model with two office days per week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and flexible remote working on the remaining days.
• High level of ownership and the opportunity to actively shape our growing data platform.
• Collaborative, international working environment with short decision-making paths.
• Continuous learning opportunities and access to modern technologies.

Your benefits with Medgate

Varied responsibilities

Flexible job options and part-time work

Career options

If you have any questions, please contact Vanessa Sziedat, HR Business Partner on [phone].