Staff Engineer

About the role

At Sudolabs, we help startups and enterprises all over the world to drive digital innovations in their businesses. With a large number of happy clients, we have some experience in delivering great software, but there is always space for improvement. And that's the main responsibility of Staff engineers, to work with our engineering team on making our service better through leading teams, delivering projects, coaching, and mentoring engineers, improving our tech stack and internal processes, helping our sales and marketing department to attract new clients, collaborate with data science, product, and design teams, and basically anything that could help us deliver better service for our clients.

As a Staff Engineer, we expect you to

• Lead the engineering teams to execute and deliver projects successfully
• Build the engineering team by finding, inspiring, and retaining talented engineers
• Deliver work as a software engineer and be responsible for architecture design, feature implementation, and code reviews
• Provide supervision and guidance to other engineers, manage their career development, perform and evaluate performance reviews
• Be a mentor and coach, talk to people regularly to better understand their situation, and help them do their best work
• Actively promote a culture of lifelong learning and create opportunities for knowledge sharing
• Actively seek improvements in our processes and practices and always think about improving our work environment
• Promote effective communication in the organization by eliminating blockers, creating clarity, resolving conflicts, strengthening relationships
• Meet with potential clients and actively work on influencing them towards cooperation with Sudolabs
• Actively cooperate with our sales and marketing team in order to find and close new projects
• Work closely with our executive team on defining a strategy to drive our business through engineering

Who are we looking for?

• Strong technical background with experience in our tech stack
• Strong in system design and the architecture of digital products
• Drive and motivation for keeping up with modern trends in web development
• Recent hands-on experience with delivery
• Years of experience delivering E2E projects through smaller teams (3-10 people)
• Experience with prototyping and MVP delivery
• Recent experience with directly leading an engineering team
• A few years of experience with delivering digital products E2E
• Experience from working in startups or in product companies with product managers and designers
• Track record of working with the executive team on driving business through engineering
• Have at least high-level product management knowledge, ideally deep PM knowledge
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts simply to a non-technical audience
• Track record of successful large engineering-related initiatives (innovations, migrations, transitions)
• Track record of growing people up through mentorship and coaching

Benefits and perks

• Permanent contract or trade license — choose what fits you
• Work from our office in Kosice or from wherever you like
• 20 paid days/year in your work time to learn new things
• 31 paid days/year time off
• Flexible working hours
• Internal tech talks on a regular basis
• Hardware package — MacBook or anything you need
• Team buildings and company retreats
• Sudo apartment in Kosice for remote colleagues
• Brand new pet-friendly office in the city center with parking space