Responsibilities
- Setting technical direction and vision for one of our Products
- Lead technical design and platform discussions
- Drive continuous improvement in our DevSecOps practices, and improve lead times and time to market while maintaining exceptional standards of product quality
- Hold yourself and team accountable for timely delivery of scalable, quality-focus user experiences and features
- Develop efficient processes, and motivate your team to operate with high velocity, ownership, and accountability
- Lead through others, and develop the next generation of engineering leaders at Proton
- Inspire, coach, and develop your teams
- Optimize your organizational structure, and continuously raise the bar on hiring
- Build strong relationships with senior leaders, and advance your long-term platform and engineering vision
- Contribute to Proton's technology and open source communities
- Foster an inclusive and diverse environment for your team to show up and give their best each day
Requirements
- Experience in software engineering in progressively complex roles
- Experience directly leading and managing engineers
- Demonstrable experience as a manager of managers
- A history of collaboration with senior leaders in engineering, product on developing technical and product strategy
- Great empathy and collaboration skills, and even greater resilience
- A curious, passionate, and growth-oriented mindset
- Deep experience as a hands-on software engineer creating well-crafted, maintainable systems
- Mobile-first background (ideally former mobile developer)
- Practical experience leading DevOps and SRE initiatives and driving best practices
Nice to Have
- Experience with cryptography
- Experience with performance tuning and scaling across client, backend, infrastructure
- Working closely with C-level executives to align on direction, vision and execution
- Having both, the experience of operating at global scale with millions of customers but also thriving in the chaotic growth phase of scaling up to reach it
Benefits
- Office First: Collaboration is easier and more effective in person, with offices in Geneva, Zurich, Prague, Barcelona, Paris, London, Vilnius, Skopje, and Taipei. Work from home up to 30% of the time.
- Technology: All devices and software provided.
- Food: Lunch and snacks provided daily at offices.
- Transport: Subsidized public transport, bike allowances, or parking spaces based on office location.
- Stock Options: Stock options when joining.
- Flexible Working: Define your own working hours as long as it works with team meetings.
- Learning and Development: Training programs, conferences and events, and continual learning.
- Employee Benefits: Comprehensive health insurance plans, competitive retirement savings options, generous vacation and leave policies, and wellness programs.
- Work that Matters: Community-first organization, built with community input, user subscriptions as only revenue source.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid — Geneva, Zurich, Prague, Barcelona, Paris, London, Vilnius, Skopje, Taipei
