Flexa

Fully-remote

A little flex time

Dog friendly

Job Description

Ledgy’s mission is to democratize ownership in startups. We create transparency for all stakeholders of a company and bring scalability to important processes for founders such as managing their stockholders, preparing financing rounds, and granting equity to all their employees.

Ledgy was founded in Switzerland in 2017 – in fact, we were the first ever Swiss company to be backed by Sequoia Capital. 🇨🇭 Today, Ledgy is a pan-European company with offices in London and Berlin as well as our HQ in Zürich.

We are proud to partner with some of the world’s leading investors. New Enterprise Associates led our $22m Series B round in 2022, with Jonathan Golden joining Sequoia’s Luciana Lixandru on our board. We are now focused on building incredible equity experiences for companies and teams, to make Europe the best place in the solar system to own equity 👩🏻‍🚀🚀

We encourage diversity and are an international team of 72 people, coming from 26 different countries and speaking 25 different languages.

We believe that startups are a main driver of positive change in the world and help create equal opportunities for everyone outside of corporate hierarchies. Humanity needs solutions for the current challenges, like climate change and the best source for this innovation are startups. We try to live by strong moral values and offer an example to other companies, while helping them be more successful with our product so they can drive the change forward.

We believe that equal opportunities for all social groups of society are necessary, and are committed to a culture where everyone feels welcome and respected. Psychological safety and a culture of modesty and openness is important to us.

We sincerely live and work by our beliefs so every hire for us is an important one. We’ve done a great job so far in building our team and our hope is that you will be able to join us.

As an Engineering Manager at Ledgy, you will learn and expand on your engineering knowledge and experiences to build a world-class team of diverse engineers that solves the difficult problems of our customers—making it as easy as possible for them to harness the power of equity. This position reports directly to the Head of Engineering. You will be responsible for managing a team of 5-8 reports.

About you:

  • You enjoy mentoring and helping engineers grow to achieve their career goals
  • You have worked as an engineer before and can be involved in technical discussions
  • You love finding the optimal solution given the resource constraints while keeping a reasonable balance between under- and over-engineering
  • You get excited by developing project plans to align your team’s work with the company's product strategy and plans
  • You are passionate and confident in leading and taking pride and ownership in the work you and your team do
  • You have a strong interest to hire, mentor, and develop career plans for engineers of all levels
  • You dream about aligning the whole team on meaningful development standards and coding practices

In the first 30 days:

  • Be paired with an onboarding buddy who will help to introduce you to the world of equity management
  • Get to know the Engineering Leadership team: our CTO (Timo), our Head of Product Development (Greg) and our Engineering Managers (Marius, Angela, and Mark) and the rest of the Product Development team.
  • Be onboarded into Engineering Leadership team and get introduced to our processes
  • Get to know Ledgistas both in Product Development and beyond in our daily cafecitos, monthly get togethers, and design your very own personalized Ledgy emoji
  • Get your first report(s) in a team member management handover with another engineering manager

In the first 3 months:

  • You’ll have an understanding of Ledgy as a product and the roadmap for the next year
  • Establish a rapport with your reports and coach them in weekly 1:1s
  • Be involved in our hiring pipeline, possibly including being a hiring manager for at least one role
  • Help to define processes for collaboration between Engineering, Product, and Design

In the first 6 to 12 months:

  • Guide and enable your team reports in their personal and career development
  • Perform career levelling with your reports
  • Be an owner for leadership projects within engineering and product development
  • Be a trusted partner for product management and design

The interview process:

  • CV Review: we review your resume to see if we might be a good fit
  • Getting to know you: 30 min chat with someone from our people team to talk about your experience and to answer questions about the role
  • Background and Engineering Leadership: 1 hour interview with Greg, our Head of Product Development, to discuss your background and experience in engineering leadership.
  • Hiring, People Management & Delivery: 1 hour interview with one of our engineering managers and Timo, our CTO.
  • Mock 1:1: 45 minute mock 1:1 with one of our engineers.
  • Technical Design: 1 hour technical/architectural design interview with two members of the engineering team.
  • Culture Interview: A chance to meet one of our founders for a 30 minute chat about Ledgy’s mission and values
  • Offer 🎉

Being part of Ledgy means to

  • See “the whole journey” and be one of the first team members of a company that scales from Switzerland to be the major player in Europe and globally
  • Work with a passionate team with diverse interests such as the outdoors ⛰️, meditation 🧘, and space exploration 🌌
  • Have a chance to get to know the startup world and it’s leaders inside and out
  • Have flexible working hours, be able to work remotely, and benefit from 25 days of vacation
  • Get stock options to become an owner of Ledgy yourself
  • Take part in company off-sites and in optional regular team activities

…all this to create a fun 🎉 and productive 👩🏾‍💻 working environment where personal hobbies and projects have enough space as well.

Please note: within CH and UK we hire via our own entity, whilst outside of these countries we are able to offer employment opportunities via a global payroll service provider. Currently, we’re not able to accommodate freelancing agreement contracts.

Company benefits

Open to compressed hours
Enhanced maternity leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Work from anywhere scheme
Summer hours
Work from home allowance
Pregnancy loss leave

The FlexScore® is the result of a rigorous 2-step verification of a company’s flexibility

First we assess the flexibility options Ledgy provides and then we anonymously survey a statistically significant proportion of their employees to make sure Ledgy is as flexible as they say they are. Our assessment is based on the six key elements of flexibility: location, hours, autonomy, benefits, role modelling and work-life balance.

We ask the hard questions so you don’t have to.

Working at Ledgy

Company employees

24

Gender diversity (male:female)

52:48

Office locations

Switzerland

Funding levels

$10,000,000 USD

Hiring Countries

Switzerland