2d ago

Team Lead Platform Core Product

Zurich, Switzerland

$175k-$225k / yearest.

full-timeleadsoftware

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead and mentor a team of 5 senior engineers, growing to 8, acting as the connective tissue across major technical initiatives. You'll stay deeply hands-on—reviewing PRs, profiling slow MySQL queries, and shipping code in Go. This role blends technical leadership with engineering execution at a fast-growing SaaS scaleup.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Lead and mentor a team of 5 senior engineers on high-impact platform projects.
  • Coordinate across engineering teams to align priorities and unblock dependencies.
  • Write and review Go code daily; set code quality and design standards.
  • Optimize MySQL performance: query tuning, indexing, schema design.

📋 Requirements

  • Management experience leading a team of 5+ senior engineers including hiring and performance management.
  • Deep MySQL knowledge: query optimization, indexing, replication under real load.
  • Production systems experience: on-call, incident response, observability.
  • Functional programming concepts and languages experience.

✨ Nice to Have

  • Experience with Haskell.
  • Leading platform or infrastructure teams.
  • Scaling systems with high concurrency or large data volumes.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🏖️ Unlimited PTO
  • 💻 Remote-friendly culture
  • 📈 Equity in fast-growing startup
  • 🍽️ Free lunch daily
  • 🏋️ Gym membership subsidy

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter call· 30 min
  2. 2Technical phone screen· 60 min
  3. 3On-site interviews· 4 hours
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