Lead Software Engineer (Remote)

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts.

The role:

Alpen Technologies has an opening for a Lead Software Engineer (Remote). Nobody expects you to know every framework. We want someone who writes clear code, tests it and asks good questions. This role is fully remote within Switzerland. We do not have many meetings. Most updates happen in writing. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

What you'll be doing:

• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback.
• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents.
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags.
• Work with product managers and designers to scope features and cut what isn't needed.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.

Nice to have:

• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Prior work at an early-stage startup.

What we offer:

• Company pension scheme.
• Up to 3 days of home office per week.
• Childcare allowance.
• Christmas bonus.

Please submit your CV in English.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Switzerland.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Alpen Technologies GmbH.