Engineering Lead
Yokoy
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Do you want to join us on the journey of disrupting the spend management business? Do you like to work in a fast-paced scale-up with a passionate and supportive team? Yokoy is hiring!
After closing our $80M Series B funding in 2022 and going through a hyper growth phase, we are now striving to lead the tech-focused transformation in our field and become the number 1 all-in-one spend management suite for midsize and enterprise companies. Join us as our new Engineering Lead and help us achieve our goals! 🚀
As an Engineering Lead at Yokoy, you'll play a pivotal role in overseeing the technical direction and execution of our projects. You'll lead a talented team of engineers, fostering collaboration, innovation, and excellence in everything we do. This role requires a blend of technical expertise, leadership acumen, and strategic vision to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality products and solutions.
🧑🏽💻 What you’ll do:
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of scalable and high-performance software solutions that meet business objectives and user needs.
- Architect robust, maintainable, and extensible software systems that adhere to best practices and industry standards.
- Define and drive the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for our projects, aligning them with business objectives and market demands.
- Oversee the end-to-end development lifecycle, from ideation and design to implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into actionable technical plans and deliverables.
- Ensure adherence to best practices, coding standards, and quality guidelines, maintaining high standards of software craftsmanship and engineering excellence.
- Identify and mitigate technical risks, challenges, and dependencies, proactively addressing issues to keep projects on track.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices, advocating for their adoption where appropriate to enhance our technical capabilities and competitive advantage.
⚒️ What you’ll need:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven experience (6+ years) in a senior or leading engineering role, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, scalable, and high-performance software systems.
- Strong technical proficiency and relevant practical experience with Node.js and Typescript as a programming language
- Proven experience with cloud software architecture (e.g. GCP, Azure, or AWS)
- Knowledge of cloud-based databases (e.g., AWS RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB) and data storage solutions
- Proficient in developing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate and influence cross-functional teams.
- Strategic mindset, with the ability to think critically, solve problems, and make data-driven decisions.
- Passion for technology, innovation, and continuous improvement, with a desire to stay ahead of the curve in a fast-paced, evolving industry.
- You speak English fluently; other languages are a plus
🚀 What you’ll get:
- Resources and trust: you own your work and shape things from day one.
- Flat hierarchies: opportunity to work closely with the founders and the leadership team.
- Fast-paced environment: quickly measure and learn about the impact of your work.
- Flexibility: everyone has their own highly productive times - we look at the output and not at what time it was produced.
- Hybrid setup: we enjoy in-person sessions, but we have also learned (thank you Covid) how to be efficient with remote working.
- Competitive scale-up package with the possibility to partake in the upside.
- Work anywhere: we offer up to 6 weeks remote work within the EU.
We are keen to get to know you. Apply with your CV and/or LinkedIn profile and a few words on why you would like to join Yokoy. We look forward to your application!
👉🏽 What’s going to happen next: we aim to get back to you regarding your application within 8 business days. Our interview process tends to take around 4 weeks to complete. If you need more flexibility or are on a tighter schedule, don’t be afraid to let us know.
If after reading our job ad you figure that this isn’t the right fit for you, feel free to share it with a friend or colleague who might be interested.
This is important to us: Yokoy is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity. We welcome people from all backgrounds who are looking to make the future simple with us. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
Yokoy is an intelligent spend management platform, trusted by modern finance teams to streamline invoices, expenses, and payments. Powered by AI and machine learning, Yokoy automates up to 95% of manual processes.
🏢 Established in 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland, Yokoy is trusted by leaders at over 600 of the world’s most forward-thinking companies to help them transform how they spend, by transforming how their people spend their time. Designed to sit at the heart of the modern finance tech stack, Yokoy connects with the leading ERP systems, invoicing platforms, travel booking tools, and other enterprise finance tools to power end-to-end automation and provide complete visibility across the enterprise. Yokoy is backed by leading investors including California-based Sequoia Capital, New York-based Left Lane Capital and London-based Balderton Capital.
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