Engineering Manager
Ledgy’s mission is to democratize ownership in startups. We create transparency for all stakeholders of a company and bring scalability to important processes for founders such as managing their stockholders, preparing financing rounds, and granting equity to all their employees.
Ledgy was founded in Switzerland in 2017 – in fact, we were the first ever Swiss company to be backed by Sequoia Capital. 🇨🇭 Today, Ledgy is a pan-European company with offices in London and Berlin as well as our HQ in Zürich.
We are proud to partner with some of the world’s leading investors. New Enterprise Associates led our $22m Series B round in 2022, with Jonathan Golden joining Sequoia’s Luciana Lixandru on our board. We are now focused on building incredible equity experiences for companies and teams, to make Europe the best place in the solar system to own equity 👩🏻🚀🚀
We encourage diversity and are an international team of 60 people, coming from 26 different countries and speaking 25 different languages.
We believe that startups are a main driver of positive change in the world and help create equal opportunities for everyone outside of corporate hierarchies. Humanity needs solutions for the current challenges, like climate change and the best source for this innovation are startups. We try to live by strong moral values and offer an example to other companies, while helping them be more successful with our product so they can drive the change forward.
We believe that equal opportunities for all social groups of society are necessary, and are committed to a culture where everyone feels welcome and respected. Psychological safety and a culture of modesty and openness is important to us.
We sincerely live and work by our beliefs so every hire for us is an important one. We’ve done a great job so far in building our team and our hope is that you will be able to join us.
About the Role:
As an Engineering Manager at Ledgy, you will learn and expand on your engineering expertise. You'll use this knowledge to build and contribute to a world-class team of diverse engineers dedicated to solving complex problems and making it effortless for our customers to harness the power of equity.
At Ledgy, you will:
- Develop strategic plans to prioritize technical and resource challenges in the engineering organization
- Dedicate at least 30% of your time to hands-on coding, setting the standard for code quality and testing best practices, and actively participating in technical discussions
- Establish development practices to improve software quality and accelerate development cycles
- Collaborate closely with fellow engineers to build tools and systems that support our services and allow engineers to deliver high quality software
- Offer technical mentorship to our team as we balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects, and shipping them quickly
- Monitor progress, identify, and address roadblocks, and communicate updates transparently both internally and externally
- Foster the growth and performance of a diverse team of motivated engineers
- Lead our onboarding and performance management processes to ensure team success
- Stay abreast of industry trends and innovations, proactively introducing fresh ideas and approaches to the team
The job is a good fit if you:
- Excel at finding optimal solutions within resource constraints while maintaining a balance between simplicity and over-engineering
- Get excited by developing project plans that align your team's efforts with the company's product strategy and goals
- Are passionate about leadership, mentoring, and take pride in the accomplishments of your team
- Enjoy solving difficult product problems with code and ideally have prior experience with our tech stack or are interested in learning it: TypeScript and Meteor.js across the stack (although we’re in the process of migrating away from Meteor.js), MongoDB for the DB and Jest for tests. Sidenote: we manage our infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Terraform.
- Get excited about establishing and upholding meaningful development standards and coding practices within your team
- Create a psychologically safe environment that encourages strong relationships and candid feedback
Please note: within CH, DE, and UK we hire via our own entity, whilst outside of these countries we are able to offer employment opportunities via a global payroll service provider. Currently, we’re not able to accommodate freelancing agreement contracts.
Being part of Ledgy means to
- See “the whole journey” and be one of the first team members of a company that scales from Switzerland to be the major player in Europe and globally
- Work with a passionate team with diverse interests such as the outdoors ⛰️, meditation 🧘, and space exploration 🌌
- Have a chance to get to know the startup world and it’s leaders inside and out
- Have flexible working hours, be able to work remotely, and benefit from 25 days of vacation
- Have an annual learning & development budget for you to invest in your professional growth
- Receive access to nilo.health, a mental health support platform
- Get stock options to become an owner of Ledgy yourself
- Take part in company off-sites and in optional regular team activities
…all this to create a fun 🎉 and productive 👩🏾💻 working environment where personal hobbies and projects have enough space as well.