Director of Engineering

We're Evooq, an established Swiss FinTech company operating in Europe and Asia. We’re on a mission to transform the way financial advisors work by offering a rich and pragmatic product ecosystem powered by proprietary quantitative models and AIpowered features.

Behind our innovative API product, there is a mix of talents from software development, system engineering, and quant backgrounds. Quality is our asset, and we strive for technical excellence to deliver expected and reliable artifacts that run smoothly in production.

Evooq is structured around flat hierarchies, autonomous teams, and a deep culture of ownership and collaboration. 

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead and support our software engineering teams. This role is key to strengthening and scaling alignment between engineering and product, ensuring teams are empowered to deliver efficiently and effectively. Your leadership will focus on fostering a collaborative, positive culture without micro-management, enhancing both team satisfaction and product quality.

Why This Role Matters

To advance our product, we need dedicated leadership that can unify engineering efforts with product goals. This role will provide essential visibility, promote best practices, and help teams maintain clear focus on the highest-impact priorities. Your work will directly improve the team's experience and contribute to the success of the Wealth Platform.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Management:

• Supervise, mentor, and strategically align multiple engineering teams.
• Foster innovation, accountability, continuous improvement (kaizen), and a dissatisfaction with the status quo.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clearly define priorities and direction.

Delivery Excellence:

• Ensure efficient and high-quality delivery of the product roadmap.
• Proactively identify and remove roadblocks, optimizing team workflows and productivity.
• Define and support team-owned KPIs that help teams inspect, learn, and continuously improve.

Operating Model Optimization:

• Define, refine, and optimize the engineering operating model, ensuring alignment across teams.
• Apply reverse Conway’s law to proactively shape organizational structures for improved delivery and collaboration.

AI Advocacy and Practice:

• Act as a knowledgeable AI practitioner, promoting and advocating its responsible and effective usage within engineering processes.
• Continuously evaluate opportunities for leveraging AI to enhance product and operational outcomes.

Hybrid Deployment Expertise:

• Guide teams in building scalable, high-quality, and maintainable hybrid solutions (on-premises and cloud).
• Maintain high operational standards, ensuring compatibility and performance across deployments.

Release Lifecycle Management:

• Own the end-to-end release process, including planning, execution, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts to streamline deployment cycles and minimize friction.

Cross-Team Collaboration:

• Serve as a key liaison between engineering and other departments, ensuring effective communication and alignment.
• Partner closely with the platform team to leverage shared services and integrations.

Technical Leadership:

• Promote best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and the use of AI.
• Foster a culture that values innovation, quality, continuous learning, and relentless improvement

• Proven experience managing several engineering teams.
• Strong understanding and practical application of reverse Conway’s law.
• Demonstrated expertise in defining and optimizing organizational operating models.
• Practical experience with AI technologies and a willingness to advocate their proper use.
• Strong commitment to continuous improvement (kaizen) and driving change beyond the status quo

Why us

• We respect work-life balance, we work autonomously on what we enjoy most, we are innovative, and we are proud to offer a very robust risk engine.
• Work with a talented, friendly, and international teams.
• Take on meaningful ownership and influence outcomes of our product outcomes.
• Enjoy a hybrid work model with flexibility (3 days in-office from either office in Lausanne or Zurich)
• Join a culture that values autonomy, initiative, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in team-building activities and a supportive peer-driven environment.
• Know more about our job positions: joinandgrow.ch

Evooq is a global provider of technology-driven solutions for wealth managers. We are building an ecosystem that combines data, technology and investment expertise to make personalised investment scalable.

Wealth managers use our solutions to deliver personalised advice to investors with high-quality content and the best investment products.

We are headquartered in Lausanne, with additional offices in Zurich and Singapore. We operate as a group of highly autonomous teams that take responsibility for their projects and interact with each other based on mutual trust.