About role

Type of contract: full-time or trade license

Place of work: Kosice, Slovakia or remote

Start date: Q3 2024

Compensation: from €31-46/hour (depends on your experience and skills)

About team and how you fit in

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, and promoting sympathy and understanding.
• 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.
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Who are we looking for?

• Strong technical background
  • Experience with our tech stack (or at least the willingness and drive to get into it fast)
  • 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
• E2E project delivery and leadership
  • 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
• Business and product-oriented mindset
  • A few years of experience with delivering digital products E2E
  • Experience from working in startups or in product companies with product managers and designers, ideally if you have experience working as a PM
  • 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
  • (Nice to have) Experience with representing engineering in sales or marketing-related activities
  • (Nice to have) Experience from a service firm, ideally consultancy
• Leadership experience
  • 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) - the ability to communicate and motivate larger groups of people
  • Track record of growing people up through mentorship and coaching
  • (Nice to have) Track record of successfully motivating people to achieve things that were outside of their comfort zone or would be considered their top performance
  • (Nice to have) Experience in building/hiring a team

Perk and benefits

• permanent contract or trade license - choose what fits you
• possibility to 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
• workations (we love to work and travel, we've already been to Tenerife, Lisbon, and Lanzarote)
• Sudo apartment in Kosice - for our remote colleagues who would like to spend some time with us in Kosice
• possibility to purchase a Multisport card
• individual or group English lessons
• brand new office in the city center with parking space
• pet-friendly office
• regular snacks are a must, of course!
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Once you check our careers pages, you can get a clear sense of how we work, what our values are, and what we can offer.