Engineering Team Lead

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011, it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 300 European companies and 12,000 decision-makers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. According to a jury of international investors, Sherpany is one of the best scale-ups in Switzerland with the potential to become a unicorn. Sherpany employs over 150 people in six locations in Europe and remotely in 19 countries around the world.

Tasks

Your mission:

In this role you are part of our Product team of 50 professionals such as Devops, Frontend & Backend Developers, UX & UI Specialists and Product Owners. You work 100% on mission critical projects from the first day on.

You will lead Sherpany s DevOps team to provide a best-in-class experience to both our customers and internal teams. We put a lot of attention to the uptime, quality, security, and our users but we are not afraid to experiment and fail fast.

We have people from all around the world - from Indonesia, through Europe to the U.S.A. so you can work from any place in the world you wish.

What you will be doing:

• Lead an international team of 4 DevOps and support their development within the organization
• Supporting the team in day-to-day operations
• Ultimately responsible for Sherpany s product infrastructure
• Maintain complex distributed systems with changing requirements and being responsible for overall responsiveness and availability of all endpoints
• Ensuring a stable change life cycle management and constantly adjusting to the product teams needs
• Drive and enable DevOps practices across an organization
• Designing architecture for new requirements and implementation thereof
• Manage various stakeholders and vendors
• Doing regular (internal and external) security assessments and assisting on company audits
• Controlling of assigned budgets

Requirements

What we will love about you:

• Experience in successfully leading a team (international environment is a plus)
• Past experience running un-managed kubernetes clusters
• Demonstrable knowledge of highly available applications/systems
• Being an open-source enthusiast

Your mindset:

• you are a self-starter with a high level of attention to detail
• you have a get-it-done attitude and always aim for the best possible solutions
• you appreciate working in a team with highly motivated and driven people
• comfortable with regular context switches to unblock your team and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• able to stake out short, mid and long-term tasks based on a (multi-) yearly roadmap and assign appropriate priorities

Benefits

How you can imagine us:

You are part of a company with people working from everywhere in the world, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome

• In order to maintain your work-life balance we offer flexible working hours, home office and/or remote-working
• Your personal and professional development is important to us which is why we offer financial support for further education, trainings etc.
• We work with modern Apple products; every employee receives an own MacBook
• Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us, which is why we organize regular team events and cultivate a value-centric cooperation

Our recruiting process:

1. Send your online application
2. First interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist
3. Interview with one of our Squad Leads
4. Show us your skills in a Technical Challenge
5. Final interview: Get to know the team
6. Offer