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