Senior Software Engineer at Ledgy at Ledgy

Job Description:

As a Senior Software Engineer at Ledgy, your mission is to write beautiful code, design an elegant data-processing architecture, and collaborate with others to build a platform that is secure and unbreakable.

At Ledgy, you will:

• Join our product team (7 developers, our product manager, the CTO, the CPO) as a full-stack web engineer
• Design a robust architecture to move fast and occasionally break things 🌳
• Exchange code reviews with our experienced software developers
• Enjoy the delights of analytical tasks and logical reasoning 🖖
• Boldly guide our team to where no web engineering department has gone before 👩‍🚀
• Experience a new paradigm of web development that blurs the boundaries between back-end and front-end engineering 🌌

The job is a good fit if you enjoy:

• Sharing your experience and help with the growth of the next generation of full-stack web engineers 👩‍🏫
• Mentoring experienced web engineers in TypeScript, CSS, React ⚛️
• Scaling a large web application written in Meteor, NodeJS, and MongoDB 🎹
• Having regular brainstorming sessions and improve the code organization 🧠
• Setting up build processes using Babel, Webpack, and GitHub Actions ⚙️
• Designing a robust infrastructure on the Google Cloud Platform 🚉
• Applying functional programming paradigms in web engineering ⛓
• Naming even complicated variables the right way 👨🏻‍🌾

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
• 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.

Please note: within CH 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.

Company Benefits

• 💸 Generous stock options package and salary benchmarking to the industry - we strive to ensure you are compensated fairly
• 🏝️ 25 days of paid vacation (plus any local public holidays)
• 📅 Remote-first processes and flexible working hours - we trust you know when you do your best work
• 🪴 Bi-annual performance conversations - regularly align your personal growth goals with your growth at Ledgy
• 🚵🏽‍♀️ Work remotely from anywhere within your base country (+2 months from abroad)
• 💻 New equipment and budget to build your workspace
• 🎪 Quarterly company off-sites and many optional team activities (game nights, team dinners, etc)
• 🤓 Never stop learning - generous learning &development budget and 2 hours per week allocated to personal development

Interview Process

• CV Review: we review your resume to see if we might be a good fit
• Getting to know you: 30 min chat with a recruiter to talk about your experience and to answer questions about the role
• Technical Screen: 45 minute coding interview with an engineer
• Take-home Challenge: dive into our business domain by solving a fun coding challenge. As a follow-up, meet with a couple of our engineers to review your submission together and discuss feedback
• Leadership interview - 45 minute chat with our Head of Product Development about your prior accomplishments and the challenges you've faced as an engineer
• Culture Interview - a chance to meet one of our founders for a 30 minute chat about Ledgy's mission and values
• Offer 🎉