Lead Engineer, Oyster Lab by Alpiq at Alpiq AG (Lucerne, Switzerland)

Oyster Lab is the incubator of Alpiq, one of the leading energy companies in Switzerland and the largest energy services provider with a European orientation. We are an international team of engineers, designers, data scientists, researchers and energy experts based in the heart of Zurich, Switzerland. We reimagine energy as a digital consumer product to improve peoples lives.

We are now looking for a Lead Engineer who shares our entrepreneurial spirit, and lives and breathes excellent software engineering. You will contribute to turning Oyster Lab into one of the fastest and most innovative company builders in the energy and e-commerce sector.

Your function

• Build and deliver technical prototypes to validate our hypotheses
• Conduct code and architecture reviews to ensure that everything is clean, maintainableand scalable
• Design and execute Oyster Labs overall technology strategy and vision
• Manage engineering team, including talent hiring and development
• Foster an agile mindset and coach other engineers to improve their skills
• Promote Oyster Lab in relevant communities, events and conferences

Your profile

• At least 5 years of programming experience of backend or mobile applications
• Experience in one or more of the following: JVM, Objective-C, Swift, Scala, Play, Docker, Akka, Kubernetes, RDBMS databases, Trusted Platform Module
• Experience with building and/or running scalable applications on a PaaS/SaaS cloud, preferably AWS
• Experience in leading agile engineering teams and collaborating with product development
• General interest and experience with distributed systems and RESTful APIs
• Knowledge of current trends in software design, architecture, DevOps and web services, and a strong interest in further development. Ability to quickly acquire skills in technologies not familiar with
• Effective communication skills and an interest in being part of highly autonomous andcross-functional teams.
• A degree in computer science, mathematics or another similar discipline
• English language fluency

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