Your mission

How you can contributeAs one of the first team members in engineering, you will shape our design decisions and address some of the most difficult technical challenges to build cutting-edge software. This is a high impact role where you will be part of the core team, shape the product, and help us to deliver value to our customers.

• Team Development: Assemble, guide, and cultivate a high-performing engineering team, fostering an environment that prioritizes engineering excellence and a customer-first approach.
• Technical Leadership: Provide strategic direction in system architecture development, ensuring the delivery of scalable, maintainable, secure, and performant products.
• A Builder at Heart: Spearhead architectural decisions and feature developments and pick a collection of tools and technologies to solve customer problems and overcome technical roadblocks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management, design, and engineering teams to create delightful user experiences, ensuring that engineering efforts are tightly aligned with company objectives.
• Performance and Quality Ownership: Maintain and spread an engineering culture of ambition, innovation, quality, and reliability and achieve high team engagement and satisfaction levels.
• Technical Excellence: Leverage your technical skills to build engineering excellence within your team that promotes and implements engineering best practices.
• Experimentation and Mentorship: Drive continuous enhancement of engineering processes and mentor team members to bolster their professional development and technical expertise.

Your profile

We’re looking for a talented engineering lead to help us build the vision of making supply chains digital, efficient, and sustainable for our customers. Now you may wonder what frameworks, tools, and languages you need to master. We believe that problem solving, creativity, and drive are more important than tools that can be picked up. The following references will give a guideline of what experiences we think might be helpful:

• You have experience scaling and leading a technical organization, preferably SaaS (5+ members), while implementing best-in-class methodologies.
• You have a proven track record building teams that focus on impact, technical excellence and transparency.
• You have a solid full-stack understanding and deeper knowledge of specific components of a B2B SaaS solution
• You have the ability to lead and make decisions to push forward.
• You are data-driven in your decision-making.
• You lead by example and are ready to roll up your sleeves to help your team in any way.
• You have excellent communication skills. Within the team and across the organization you can communicate transparently and effectively.

Our Tech Stack:

• Backend: Python, FastAPI, SQL Alchemy, Alembic, Pydantic, Pytest, …
• Frontend: TypeScript, NextJS, Zustand, Material UI, React Hook Form, …
• DB: PostgreSQL
• Data: Python, Prefect, Pandas, …
• Cloud: Azure
• Other: GitHub, GitHub Actions, Dependabot, Pre-commit, Mozilla SOPS, …

It is not expected to be completely familiar with each and every aspect of our tech stack.Other technologies that we enjoy discussing and encourage in the team:

• Backend: Golang, Rust
• Frontend: Vue / Nuxt, Svelte / Svelte Kit, Tailwind, Bun, tRPC, …
• Linux: Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, i3, …
• Other: LLMs, LMMs, NeoVim Configs, …