Principal Software Engineer

About Vacuum Group

We are a team of passionate entrepreneurs who believe that nothing is impossible. We aim to advance humanity by improving access to capital, justice and healthcare. We think of profit as a fuel to make social impact. 

We are the pioneers of top-notch solutions in fintech, legaltech, crypto, healthtech, and more to come. Our portfolio currently consists of 12 fast growing companies, and our community is constantly expanding. The founding member and the largest portfolio company is the fintech software house Vacuumlabs. We strive to become a major gravity pull force for top talent in the CEE region and we want to lead the way and inspire other businesses when it comes to social responsibility

Who are we looking for

One of the members of our Vacuum community, a team of World’s best mathematicians, physicists & engineers developing tech-forward solutions, market-making algorithms and introducing innovations are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join & lead one of the engineering squads each consisting of around 10 members.

This role is a perfect fit for a seasoned engineering leader with hands on programming skill and aspiration to keep close to the code and the tech. One who wants to make an impact through leading, scaling, and transforming an engineering organization, working with the latest technologies and approaches, and building a solid engineering culture along with highly efficient processes. 

Role Overview

• Set up and oversee innovation and technology scouting activities, define common

• process, language, and tools; lead by example and understand the facing challenges

• within the team

• Implement and support a consistent project and programs delivery across engineering

• teams

• Define and implement the set of security and compliance measures in engineering

• processes and practices that reassure reaching the expected security level of our services

• Make sure technology innovation and product roadmap execution are delivered

• simultaneously and do not sacrifice each other. Align on the high- level priorities with the

• product management. Build a framework to ensure that we are keeping a balance

• between technical debt and improvements vs. the delivery of the features

• Build a framework to evaluate engineers’ performance. Use the results for making

• promotion or dismissal, and for a personal development plan. Manage the team and help

• them grow

• Review and develop target Engineering Culture and adopt it within the teams

• Manage external and internal partnerships.

Skills required & Practicals

• Strong hands-on engineering background

• Solid experience in engineering leadership roles, successful track of scaling of engineering teams and processes

• Deep understanding of scaled delivery frameworks and their usage in practice. Ability to

• apply them in different contexts

• Mastery in engineering project management approaches and tools for planning, tracking,

• prioritization, risk management portfolio management

• Ability to dive deeper into the engineering problems or incidents, identify root cause, and

• propose remediations together with your senior colleagues and the team

• Good understanding of system design, quality management, security & compliance,

• DevOps and infrastructure

• Strong leadership skills to drive engineering teams’ performance management,

• engineering culture and engineering employer brand directions;

• Excellent communication, analytic and problem-solving skills, can-do attitude

• Fluency in English language is necessary

  • Nice to have will be:

• if you are a reasonable risk taker and you possess some basic knowledge around crypto technology.

• basic knowledge of Slovak or Czech

Practicals

• Location: Bratislava (possible hybrid form) / If you are not currently in this location, a relocation package covering costs & support is available

• Compensation: TBD, but in general monthly remuneration + performance bonuses + equity package + perks of Spot co-working & more benefits

• Type of contract: contractor or TPP

• Starting Date: ASAP or upon agreement