About You

You want to use your skills to address climate change. You’d be excited to work in a dynamic, friendly, fast-growing startup. You’re an experienced frontend application builder, comfortable taking a project from 0 to 1. You feel excited about the responsibility of shaping the direction of a pre-seed startup product. Sounds like you? Read on…

About Us

Optiml is fast-growing startup with a mission to decarbonise real estate as “the trusted software provider for sustainable and profitable real estate portfolios”. We spun out of ETH Zurich in fall 2022 and raised our $1.6m pre-seed from top-notch US & EU funds: Innovation Endeavors (San Francisco – fund of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt) and Planet A (Berlin). In short: although we’re only 1.5 years old, we’re getting a lot of interest, and we’re at the stage where we need more entrepreneurial and talented engineers to join our team.

Tasks

Responsibilities

• Shape the direction of the product (our web-based SaaS platform) with your strong product sense.
• Come up with innovative solutions to solve our customers' problems.
• Build prototypes to validate key design concepts.
• Imagine reactive interfaces for customers that leverage our data and models.
• Own the whole development lifecycle: specs to implementation.
• Collaborate with peers on architecture, design and code reviews.
  
  
  

Who We Are Looking For

• Highly Self-Motivated: You are able to quickly and efficiently execute tasks, demonstrating strong initiative and self-drive.
• You Get Things Done: You prioritize speed and flexibility, adept at making swift compromises to maintain momentum.
• Keen Eye for Product Design: Your meticulous attention to detail ensures excellence in product aesthetics and functionality.
• Analytical and Self-Reflective: You analyze your performance and continuously seek ways to improve.
• Compassionate and Humorous: You bring kindness and humor to the team, enhancing both morale and collaboration.
  
  
  

Requirements

Must have

• 5+ years of experience designing, building and maintaining applications.
• Strong programming skills (Typescript, Python, Other).
• Knowledge of frontend frameworks (NextJS).
• Ability to contribute individually and in teams.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Swiss or EU citizenship (unfortunately due to size, we can’t support non-EU).
  
  
  

Nice to have

• Product design experience.
• Experience with GCP products (Firebase, BigQuery, Buckets).
• Broad financial/real estate knowledge.
  
  
  

Benefits

• Direct impact on the product and go-to-market direction of Optiml from the earliest days
• Unique opportunity to learn: try, fail, iterate, and build new skills every day - in a culture that values growth & development individually and as a team
• Learning and development budget of CHF 1k (conferences, certificates, etc.).
• Shit happens: 100% accident non-occupational accident insurance (UVG) covered.
• 25 days paid vacation, flexible parental leave.
• Note: We work primarily from our Zürich office, but offer the possibility of some remote work and flexible hours.