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 worldeven Antarctica!
As one of the most successful startups in Switzerland, with staff from all over the world, we’re on a mission to make PDF easy. We love open-source and using the latest technologies to scale our distributed application to process millions of files every day.
About the Payments Team
At Smallpdf, we work in pods, which are autonomous and cross-functional teams within the company.
You would be working as a Pod-lead in the Payments and Monetization team. Our goal is to help our users to become and stay happy customers!
In more practical terms, we:
- Build a stable and scalable subscription and payment infrastructure for customers all over the world
- Measure and optimize our checkout flow to make sure customers can easily sign up and manage their subscriptions
- Run experiments on offering more tailored packages and prices for our customers
- Make sure our payment flows meet all security and legal requirements
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 domains
- 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 serving our 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 Talent Acquisition to grow our engineering team
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of working as a Software Engineer or equivalent role at a SaaS company
- 3+ years management experience, preferably leading a team in a SaaS environment
- Demonstrable ability to own a project and take it 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,.)
We use the latest technologies, including:- Frontend: React with TypeScript
- Backend: Golang
- Infra: AWS, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Github
- Data: Redshift, DBT, Metabase
Benefits
- The opportunity to impact a successful, growing scale-up and its tools used by millions worldwide.
- Work in small, highly motivated, cross-functional teams that push boundaries.
- We are remote-work friendly (we prioritize a healthy work-life balance)
- A dedicated annual budget and time off for personal development
- Enjoy company events in the Swiss Alps, on Lake Zurich, or even further afield.
- After-work events include BBQs, cinema, game nights, meet-ups, and more.
- Learn German with our free German language course.
- Hack days to challenge yourself and the team.
- Unlimited free coffee and drinks.
- Weekly team lunch on the house.
- Brand new offices in the heart of Zurich.
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 Rsti 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 Switzerlandand so is Smallpdf.
Smallpdf is an equal op