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.

**About the Core Platform Team**
The Core Platform team is responsible for developing shared services and tools to improve the productivity of our engineering teams and the quality of our platform. The team consists of back-end and DevOps engineers who develop the core infrastructure used by all other teams within Smallpdf.
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Your mission - should you choose to accept it: *
- **Mentor, coach, and enable growth** for the engineers in your team
- **Support technical decision making** both within your team and across engineering
- **Collaborate closely with Product Management** to set product requirements and provide high-level estimates
- **Work as part of a cross-functional team** to improve and expand Smallpdf's functionality around payments and monetization topics
- **Drive adoption and improvement of various KPIs and OKRs** both for your team and for engineering in general

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Responsibilities*
- **Enable your team** to deliver a high-quality product to satisfy users' needs
- **Management responsibility** for the engineers in your team (3-5 engineers)
- **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

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Requirements*
- Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of working as a software engineer or equivalent role building Web Applications
- 3+ years management experience, preferably leading a team in a SaaS environment
- Demonstrable ability to own a project from start to finish
- Fluent English
- Based in Zurich or willing to relocate (this is an on-site role)
- Swiss or EU passport holder (or other permits that allow you to work in Switzerland)

**Nice to have**:

- Experience scaling (micro-) web services to millions of users.
- Experience with Operations and DevOps topics like CI/CD, Feature Flags, Observability, Alerting, etc..
- Experience with Container Orchestration tools (eg. Kubernetes)
- Experience with AWS or other cloud providers
- Experience with the specific technologies in our stack (Golang, React,...)

**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

**We use the latest technologies, including**:

- Frontend: React with TypeScript
- Backend: Golang
- Infra: AWS, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Github
- Data: Redshift, DBT, Metabase

Full stack on Stackshare

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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