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Legacy systems, silos, and outdated processes hold innovation back. We help you build scalable architecture and an empowered engineering capability.

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What outdated systems really cost you

Behind every one of these numbers is the same root cause: systems and ways of working that can't keep pace with change. Left unchecked, downtime, technical debt, and stalled AI returns quietly erode your margins and momentum.

The opportunity is just as real.

By modernising your architecture and empowering your engineers, you can move from firefighting to truly impactful innovation. We help you make that shift, from initial assessment to full-scale deployment.

Our software engineering expertise in action

Kardex: new control software in record time

We redesigned the architecture behind Kardex's Vertical Lift Modules and delivered a future-ready control system in 18 months, securing production and opening up new digital business models.

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A secure mobile SDK for smart insulin therapy

We co-created a secure, compliant mobile SDK so Ypsomed and its partners can build connected diabetes-care apps faster, without compromising on safety or compliance.

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Grundfos: a SIL3 functional safety module

We helped Grundfos build a SIL3-compliant safety module that cut development time and cost, removed the need for external safety devices, and widened market reach.

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Singapore's first cloud-native digital bank

We engineered a cloud-native digital banking platform that attracted more than 500,000 users within seven months of launch.

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BitMEX: security built into every release

We helped BitMEX embed security into its development pipeline, taking the crypto exchange from ad-hoc testing to a systematic, automated approach that protects every release, in 12 months.

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AI-powered legacy system modernisation

Our legacy system modernisation services combine engineering excellence with AI-powered techniques to build resilience and de-risk your transformation journey.

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Our software engineering services

Explore how we help you modernise across people, processes, and platforms.

Tech architecture consulting

Our specialists closely analyse your systems architecture to identify your biggest operational risks and opportunities.

Informed by our 15+ years' experience in technical infrastructure, the Zühlke Architecture Assessment Framework is designed to help you uncover critical improvement opportunities in your systems architecture.

Gain a comprehensive view of your current architecture.
Identify and tackle technical debt and issues in your technology infrastructure that impede progress towards your strategic goals.
Uncover risks and define iterative, cost-effective steps to modernise and future proof your backend systems.
Eliminate bias and validate your approach with an experienced external systems architect.

Engineering consulting and troubleshooting

Uncover the root causes of quality, reliability, and scalability issues in your engineering processes and delivery methods. Develop a strategy to solve those issues and unlock operational efficiencies, including accelerated time to market.

Our software specialists use multi-layered tests, data, analysis, and observation to identify challenges and improvement opportunities in your engineering capability, processes, and platforms.

Locate and solve critical software issues while ensuring business continuity and minimal impact on your business operations.
Identify and address engineering issues that hamper innovation and create inefficiencies, including increased costs, risk, time to market, and reduced quality.
Ensure return on your digital initiatives and improved total cost of ownership.
Empower your organisation to build the right thing, build it right, as fast as feasible.

Empowered engineering

Adopt modern technologies, engineering best practices, and modern delivery methods for an empowered and future-ready engineering capability.

Retain, grow, and assimilate knowledge across your engineering systems, processes, and people to reduce risk and future proof operations.

Identify how to transform engineering into a capability for continuous and effective change.
Adopt modern delivery methods and technologies such as AI and machine learning to drive operational efficiencies and innovation.
Automate repetitive tasks in the development lifecycle and deploy engineers where they can have the biggest impact and derive the most value and satisfaction.
Ensure new technologies are implemented safely and securely, with careful consideration for long term costs and technical agility.

Low-code solutions development

Accelerate development, reduce complexity, and drive innovation with scalable, enterprise-ready low-code solutions, tailored to meet the needs of both IT and business departments.

Equip your business users to build their own complex systems, proof of concepts, and models, with the simplicity of drag-and-drop.

Optimise your development process and accelerate delivery with a visual, low-code approach to software development.
Rapidly build business applications and portals that combine the best of build and buy.
Put powerful tools in the hands of business users with rich expertise in their domain.

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“Zühlke provided the project with critical momentum as a partner that not only analyses but also takes ownership and plays an active role in execution.”
Tobias Flury
Group CTO, Kardex

Why choose Zühlke as your engineering partner?

Navigate risk and opportunity with the supportive direction of our world-class engineers, solution architects, and the wider Zühlke ecosystem. We continually upskill in the latest infrastructure, technologies, and delivery best practices, so you don't have to.

Global and scalable

Augment your capabilities and ecosystem with an experienced global partner that can scale and flex to meet your needs and connect you with the right collaborators. We orchestrate complex transformation programmes and eliminate bias and assumptions from your thinking and decision making.

Diverse and purposeful

Diverse perspectives and experiences accelerate innovation and allow faster, smarter problem solving. That's why our global teams are diverse and multidisciplinary. And it's why diversity is embedded across our policies and sits at the heart of our community engagement initiatives.

Reliable and collaborative

Drive tangible business value with our high-performance, results-driven teams. We deliver industry-certified quality without compromising on cost, security, or efficiency. Our people are permanent, not contractors, and together we're committed to accelerating your time to value. Our approach is highly collaborative and open for an environment that fosters ongoing learning and innovation. Clients trust us to become a natural extension of their own teams and to embed ourselves across the organisation.

Open and supportive

Grow and mature your technical and engineering capability with our extensive experience, continuous learning, and global best practices. Our people set you up to succeed, long after we're gone. With 10% of Zühlke's annual revenue committed to training and development, we continually upskill our people in best-in-breed technologies and delivery methods, so you don't have to. Our approach is supportive and mindful, because happy teams are better teams, and better teams mean better outcomes.

Partners who extend what we deliver

We bring the right collaborators to every challenge. Our partnerships with leading technology providers mean you benefit from proven platforms and deep engineering expertise, working as one.

Want to explore what's possible for your engineering?

Tell us where your systems are holding you back, and we'll show you a practical, low-risk path to modern architecture and empowered engineering.

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Meet our software engineering experts

David Elliman
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Doris Rogger
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Hannes Thielker
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We're a people business first. Join a global team of engineers and architects who learn continuously, work as permanent colleagues rather than contractors, and help clients innovate at scale.

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