Lead Backend Engineer

• Embrace Challenges: You prioritize speed and flexibility, adept at making swift compromises to maintain momentum.
• Push The Limits: You are able to quickly and efficiently execute tasks, demonstrating strong initiative and self-drive.
• Inspire Others: You bring kindness and humor to the team, enhancing both morale and collaboration.
• Champion The Customer: You do what is right for the customer and can deliver outcomes.

Must have

• MSc in Computer science, Math or equivalent.
• 7+ years of experience designing, building and maintaining data-intensive applications.
• Expertise in system architecture, algorithms, and performance optimization.
• Proven record of shipping and scaling back-end systems (Python, C++) in fast-moving environments.
• Experience bridging production grade engineering and research (Optimization, ML).
• Ability to make sound trade-offs and drive outcomes that balance speed and quality.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Desire to work from our Zurich office.

Nice to have:

• Experience from startup to scale up

• Knowledge of financial modeling or physics-based simulations

• Learning and development budget of CHF 1k (conferences, certificates, etc.).

Optiml is revolutionizing real estate with our Real Estate Decision Intelligence (REDI) software-a new category of AI-powered technology that helps decarbonize buildings while optimizing asset & portfolio performance. Since our launch in April 2024, we have been scaling across Europe and the US, receiving significant industry recognition and winning three major PropTech awards, including: 2024 ULI Europe PropTech of the Year 2024 ZIA PropTech of the Year We are backed by $6M in pre-seed funding from top-tier US and EU funds, including Innovation Endeavors (the fund of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt), Planet A, BitStone, and Kompas. * Lead the engineering development of a part of the core product. * Ramp up quickly on domain knowledge in the real estate / buildings industry required to understand the problem space. * Come up with innovative solutions to solve our customers' problems. * Own the whole development lifecycle: prototype to specs to production. * Collaborate with peers on architecture, design and code reviews. * Simplify complexity, guide the team toward clear, pragmatic solutions. * Mentor engineers, raise standards and help the team move faster with confidence. * Build systems that can scale with Optiml's growth from startup to scale-up.