Engineering Manager

Vor 3 Tagen

Zurich, Schweiz smallpdf Vollzeit

If you are a talented technical team lead **and would be interested in working on a product loved and used by **40+ million monthly active users**, this job is for you

**About Smallpdf**
Founded in Switzerland in 2013, Smallpdf provides a simple, secure, and reliable answer to common frustrating PDF problems, and has become the most-loved and most trusted PDF software on the planet. We serve over 500 million users in 24 different languages, and in every country in the world—even Antarctica

**About the Acquisition Team**
At Smallpdf, we work in pods, which are autonomous and cross-functional teams within the company.
You would be working as the pod lead in the **Growth Acquisition** team. Our goal is to attract more users to our platform, and help them engage with our product.
In more practical terms, we:

- Collaborate together to plan, execute, and analyze experiments to drive activation, engagement, and ultimately—growth
- Find new channels and improve existing ones to expand both the quality & quantity of users on our platform
- Make sure users find what they are looking for to get their work done
- Help users discover and unlock 'superpowers' on our platforms

**Some of the technology we use**:

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

**What you will do**:

- **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

**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

**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 building and maintaining payments and subscription systems
- 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

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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