Each and every day, around 15,000 employees in the Valora network work to brighten up their customers’ journey with a comprehensive convenience and food offering – nearby, quick, convenient and fresh. The more than 2,700 small-scale outlets of Valora are located at highly frequented sites in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The company includes, among others, the formats k kiosk, Brezelkönig, BackWerk, Ditsch, Press & Books, avec, Caffè Spettacolo and the popular own brand ok.– as well as a continuously growing range of digital services. Valora is also one of the world’s leading producers of pretzels and benefits from a well-integrated value chain in the area of baked goods.

Zurich / Muttenz / Remote

Head of Engineering 80-100%

Valora is building up an internal engineering team with the goal to increase the speed and agility of innovation. You will be responsible for this team and its output and as such, the top developer inside our company. As the interface between your team, the product management team and the rest of the company, you will be translating business needs into architectural decisions and manageable features. Besides your management duties and role as main software architect, we also expect you to get your hands dirty in code on a daily basis. Your team is embedded in our Digital unit which operates on the group level. This means you will be delivering projects with high visibility across all our units and all countries we operate in. Your projects will be varied, acting as an internal service provider, developing the digital team’s own initiatives and even launching in-house startups.

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Manage our team of software engineers and data scientists, working across backend, frontend and mobile


• Take architectural decisions and defend them towards all stakeholders


• Lead by example by writing well-tested, concise code across our stack


• Choose the right tools and institute good development practices


• Improve and maintain our production environment, for example by adding monitoring and alerting (DevOps)


• Set up a modern development workflow for your team, including a continuous integration pipeline and automated deployments


• Be the interface between the development team, the product management team and the rest of the company


• Manage the hiring process and grow/develop your team 


• Support the developers in your team with technical guidance

Key skills / requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of software development experience in a general purpose programming language


• BSc degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience


• Leadership experience


• History of taking or influencing major architectural decisions


• Lived or instituted good development practices like testing, code reviews, agile development


• Likeable personality with good communication skills


• Ability to quickly get up to speed in any programming language or system if needed


• Ability to tackle problems outside your comfort zone and get things done without supervision


• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in English

Desirable:

• Experience in any of the following programming languages: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, Rust or Go


• Experience working with one or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, service oriented architectures, REST APIs, developing large software systems


• Expert knowledge of Git or another DVCS


• Good spoken and written knowledge of German

What we offer

• Build products for a customer base of more than 5 million people across 5 countries


• Access the resources of a big corporate but get the freedom of working in an uncomplicated environment


• Work from home when you need to


• Competitive salary


• 9 out of 12 points on “The Joel Test” (www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-steps-to-better-code/)

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We look forward to receiving your complete application documents. Please apply online only. Direct applications are preferred.

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Valora — brightens up your journey

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Valora Schweiz AG
Mladen Mumalo
mladen.mumalo@valora.com — www.valora.com

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