About Pallon
At Pallon, a spin-off from ETH Zurich, we’re creating AI that automatically detects defects in sewer inspection videos and advises cities on when & how to fix them. By providing more precise, objective data, we aim to fix wastewater leaks, reduce CO2 emissions, and prevent urban flooding. Our mission is to make cities more sustainable and resilient.
Responsibilities & team structure
In this role, you’ll join the Leadership team and build a clear engineering vision, strategy, and culture together with the web platform team. The web platform team currently consists of five Software Engineers, building a highly interactive web platform for both internal users and external clients.
You will be responsible for growing our team while ensuring high-quality delivery. The main focus will be on the web-platform team in collaboration with our Product Managers & Designers, for whom you will also build out effective processes for collaboration.
Your initial responsibilities canroughly be split as follows, but we anticipate you to be fluid and adapt:
40%Delivery: Collaborate closely with the engineering function, drive the development, set priorities, and drive & facilitate technical decisions.
20%Being Hands-on: Be hands-on, help the team design & develop our technical architecture & infrastructure, and stay up to date on the code base that your team maintains.
40%People: Build a high-performing & diverse team, develop our engineers further, and foster the right culture that attracts other great talent.
Exciting growth stage & Challenges
We're a fast-growing company of currently 30 people and the challenges you will face can be demanding and diverse. We are looking for a technologist and a people advocate who can:
Bring order to "startup chaos" and help the team achieve ambitious goals
Double & develop the web platform team within a year
Build a strong engineering culture while integrating all the new joiners and growth changes effectively
Make clearly reasoned decisions fast, with some degree of uncertainty
Solve complex problems regardless of limited resources
Requirements
For a successful application, we recommend the following requirements:
You bring a successful track record of doubling, developing, and managing software engineering teams
You joined early and experienced high growth in a company, e.g. scaled from five to 20+ engineers in less than three years
You facilitated between individuals, teams, and management to reach a common goal
You worked as a software engineer yourself on a complex technical product, ideally web applications
You understand technical products and best practices for development teams
You are located in Europe and if not in Zurich willing to travel 2+ times per year to Zurich
Optional
The following are not required for you to apply, however, they do add extra value:
Experience with setting or changing organisational structure
Experience with engineering teams working on B2B SaaS products
Experience with our tech stack
Experience with machine learning
Our tech stack
We do not require experience in these exact technologies
Frontend: Typescript, MobX, React, WebGL, Canvas
Backend: Python, NodeJS, Typescript, Postgres, Django
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker
Analytics: DBT, BigQuery, Metabase
Benefits & company culture
As a part of Pallon, you will:
Contribute to a positive impact on society and the environment
Develop a novel product that changes a whole industry
Work in a stimulating and fast-paced environment
Be part of a motivated, smart, fun, and supportive team
Own a part of Pallon and have a part in our success with our Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
Work for the Underworld, not the Devil: exploring sewers virtually and in real life during our Pallon offsite
Work from home or enjoy access to our beautiful office space located in Zürich
How we interview
Respect your time: we keep interviews short to value your time
Real problems: all questions are based on real problems we had to solve. We do not make you jump through hoops that are unrelated to the work you will be doing.
Get to know you: we want to get to know you as a person to understand if we are the right team for you.
Our interview process
Phone Screen
Leadership Interview
Technical Interview
Onsite Interview (full day in our Zurich office)
Inclusion statement
At Pallon, we highly value equality of opportunity and inclusivity, and we would like to particularly encourage women and candidates from under-represented backgrounds to apply, even if you don’t match 100% of the requirements.