Group Engineering Manager

vor 2 Wochen


Zurich, Schweiz smallpdf Vollzeit

**Who are we?**

**About PDF Tools SDK Products**
Products for the PDF Tools AG brand target developers that need to integrate PDF-related processing into their software. In order to focus on driving their business cases, our customers rely on the high quality and performance of our SDK products. Functionality includes long term PDF archiving, compression of PDFs, signing PDFs, PDF viewing/editing, and more.

**Your mission - should you choose to accept it**:

- **Mentor, coach, and enable growth** for the engineering managers leading your teams and the engineers in those teams
- **Support technical decision making** both within your teams and across engineering
- **Collaborate closely with Product Management** to set product requirements and provide high-level estimates
- **Drive adoption and improvement of various KPIs and OKRs** both for your teams and for engineering in general

**Responsibilities & Duties**
- **Enable your teams** to deliver a high-quality product to satisfy users' needs
- **Management responsibility** for the engineering managers leading your teams
- **Technical decision making** accountability, oversight, and delegation
- **Collaborate** closely with other engineering managers and stakeholders
- **Work with the Talent Acquisition team** to grow and nurture our engineering team

**Requirements**:

- Degree in Computer Science or similar, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of working as a software engineer or equivalent role
- Experience with low level technical challenges, preferably for a developer facing product
- Experience with web services and APIs, preferably in a highly scalable environment
- 5+ years engineering management experience
- Track record of successfully mentoring and coaching engineering managers
- Demonstrable ability to own long-running cross-team projects from start to finish, working in an environment with a large codebase and an established user base
- Fluent English

**Nice to have**
- Experience building SDKs
- Experience building custom document formats
- Experience with the specific technologies in our stack
- In-depth knowledge of various operating systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android)
- Experience scaling (micro-) web services to millions of users

**Some of the technologies we use**
- C++, C#10 /.NET6, Java, Python, TypeScript
- WebAssembly
- Git, Azure DevOps, CMake
- GoogleTest, MSTest
- Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

**Why Smallpdf?**
You get to impact the way over 40 million people get work done every month.
Push boundaries and dare to fail—that’s how we learn
Enjoy hybrid work environment, you can work both from home and in the office, but there is a minimum of 4 days per quarter when you are expected to meet up with your team, work together in synergy and strengthen your team bond.
Unlimited vacation days—yep, you read that right—plus year-end company holidays.
Need a long break? We offer sabbatical leave to employees who’ve been with us for over 2 years.
16 weeks parental leave—100% of your salary—for all new parents
Don’t leave your four-legged friends at home, our offices are pet-friendly
A personal development budget of up to 2,000 CHF every year, plus 8 days off for courses or training.
Possibility of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). Conditions apply.
Hack days to challenge you and your team, plus build amazing things.
BBQs, game nights, meetups in the Swiss Alps, or in kayaks on Lake Zurich—we’re serious about great coffee, karaoke, and Mario Kart, too

Rated by Forbes as one of the top 10 cities in the world for work-life balance, Zurich is the place to work for anyone who wants more out of life. From chocolate, cheese, and rӧsti to snow-capped mountains, haute couture, Swiss-made watches, and outstanding public transport, whatever it is that makes your heart beat faster, it’s all right here in Switzerland—the home of Smallpdf.



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