Head of Software Development

• Proactively take ownership of all of ch-aviation’s products
• Take product ideas from senior management or external customers and put them into action including building and managing the product road map
• Know how to make build, buy, or partner decisions
• Manage business analysis from an IT perspective, UI/UX design, web development, QA/UAT including HR responsibility for the existing team of 5.5 FTEs growing it to 10+ FTEs in 2022
• Run design reviews with internal and external stakeholders in early stages of software development projects
• Perform code reviews, establish standards and processes, and train your team on those standards, ensuring their projects are following those standards
• Being ultimately accountable for the success of all the projects your team manages
• Work with sales on sales engineering projects to provide sample/actual data and effort estimates to ch-aviation prospects or customers
• Be included in devising and implementing the general IT strategy and budget (everything from mouses to hosting and software architecture)
• Be able to manage external IT vendors (hardware, software, agencies to source software developers or UX/UI designers, SaaS tools)
• Drive ch-aviation’s sourcing/recruitment strategy and budget for all resources involved in the software development lifecycle

• 10+ years of backend and frontend web development experience (preferably also 2 years in a VP, CTO, or similar leadership role)
• Some production-level PHP experience (and experience in languages like Java, Rust, TypeScript is a plus)
• Given our data heaviness, experience with large/complex SQL databases would be great
• Real-world experience with Continuous Integration/Deployment pipelines
• Experience managing test driven development
• Knowledge of technological trends to build strategy
• Understand budgets and business planning
• Aviation and/or SaaS experience is a great plus

• A chance to be a part of casual but professional environment where you will have safe place to try, fail and learn
• Have full ownership over your code
• Opportunity to advance your soft and technical skills and set your own development path
• Defined and organized onboarding process for both, the company and the project
• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• Private pension and medical insurance for you and your family. Also, maternity and sick leave are 100% paid
• Sport clubs – from fishing to basketball, whatever rocks your boat
• Awesome referral fees - because great people know great people
• Work-life balance – this is the company that really support your professional, family and personal goals
• Freedom to decide how you want to work - partly or fully remote or from our offices

Please apply or contact us for any additional information.