Founded in 1893 with the Tages-Anzeiger, the media company Tamedia encompasses the strongest editorial network in Switzerland and employs over 1800 people in German-speaking Switzerland and Romandy. Tamedia's leading daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, and news platforms are locally rooted and internationally connected, providing transparency and offering entertainment as well as guidance. In addition, Tamedia operates the three largest newspaper printing plants in Switzerland. Tamedia is a subsidiary of the TX Group.
Technical Lead Frontend @ Unity
Tamedia: Beyond the Headlines. As Switzerland's strongest editorial network, we help shape the country's topics and debates. Our bespoke software, Unity, serves as the core platform for our editorial teams, empowering hundreds of journalists to seamlessly create, review and manage news content across our various publications and distribution channels. We're in search of a frontend technical team lead to spearhead the continuous enhancement of our news editor, integrating cutting-edge AI features, productivity enhancements, and other exciting CMS updates.
What you can expect:
- Close collaboration with cross-functional teams, notably the Product Owner, Requirements Engineer, Backend, and Content Distribution teams spread across various locations, to actively shape and drive the implementation of new features
- You're able to lead an international team by maintaining a culture of curiosity, helpfulness, continuous improvement and general good spirits
- Expect a culture of analysis, development, learning from failures, and embracing new technologies
- Utilize senior expertise to address technical debt and enhance the product
- You drive productivity and ensure architectural flexibility to meet future product requirements
- Opportunity to contribute to the roadmap and shape the product's evolution with each release
We are looking for:
- An experienced software engineer with a proven record of delivering successful product releases, adept at anticipating and mitigating challenges
- You're able to lead an international team by maintaining a culture of curiosity, helpfulness and general good spirits
- You possess a forward-thinking mindset, shaping code architecture and influencing development with your expertise
- Effective communication is a strength, enabling you to convey technical concepts convincingly and support team members effectively
- Your ability to craft a compelling technological vision guides our decisions and drives innovation within the codebase
- Specifically, we're seeking individuals with proficiency in modern React, Typescript, MUI, Styled Components, React-Query, Redux and React Hook Forms
- Your curiosity, enthusiasm, and commitment to supporting independent journalism align with our values and mission
Benefits:
- Five weeks vacation with option for seven weeks and vacation purchase
- Flexible working models and mobile office options
- A market-, performance- and success-oriented compensation package
- Numerous discounts e.g. cell phone subscription, digital TV, bicycle rental, car purchase
- Wide range of free health promotion services (social counseling, health coach app, flu vaccination, various trainings)
- Possibility for unpaid vacation up to max. six months
- Additional half days off before certain holidays
- Referral program: Up to CHF 2'000
- Wide training and development offering (leadership, mentoring, development programs, language courses, Sales Academy, self-competence, methodological competence, project management, change management and much more)
- Digital and print subscription / free and discounted subscription offer
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