Have you ever started at a company and been sent a giant pdf or template in a project management tool as a way to track your onboarding? Were you ever promoted to a management role only to realize months in that you were never added to the manager email list, private chat channel or calendar invites? Did you ever need to take or return from a leave of absence and struggled to know what to do and how to set up your team during that time? Want to make those stressful moments better for others? 

Dado is an employee experience management platform that empowers HR Teams to run holistic employee-first experiences at scale, dramatically reducing stress and admin time across the organization.

Our tool acts as a wrapper around an organization's existing tool stack to bring together internal comms, task management and no-code automations, allowing HR Teams to achieve consistency, equity and measure the success of their initiatives.

Dado is a distributed, fully remote company headquartered in Berlin, Germany. We welcome candidates who are based almost anywhere in the world, but working typical office hours in GMT, GMT+1 or GMT+2 timezones.

Dado is looking for an Engineering Lead ready to take the next step up, to join our team as the company moves into its next phase of growth. You’d be working closely with the leadership team, contributing to the company’s strategic direction, and leading the product development. The right candidate would be happiest when most of their role is a mix of hands-on coding, technical architecture, and strategic decision making. This role starts off as an IC with the option (but not the requirement) to progress to people management.

Dado’s product automates the tedious manual work involved in running HR programs like onboarding, offboarding, mentorship programs, training, offsites, and more. The product is 3 years old, with a strong foundation and a broad feature set beloved by customers. The techstack is Typescript in both front- and back-end, serverless cloud functions, a real-time database (Firestore), and a React front-end.

Your background

The right person for this role is a senior IC, or someone looking to move back to IC after a people management role. You might have previously been principal/staff  engineer or engineering lead at an early-stage start-up; run an engineering team for a new product at an existing company, and/or founded a start-up, an open-source project or similar.

This role is ideal for someone who wants to take the next step up to have more strategic impact, after excelling at their current level. Everyone on the Dado leadership team has learned part of their current role while working here, and we provide a supportive environment to develop into new areas.

We're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we value transparency, autonomy, experimentation, and kind, direct feedback. We're an equal opportunity employer and we welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

If you identify as a woman, gender diverse, ability diverse, BIPOC or queer, we want to hear from you – make sure to apply even if you feel you don’t fulfill all listed requirements.

Requirements

• Leading the hands-on coding, at first solo and then working closely with other engineers to provide feedback and guidance on their code

• Experience with serverless systems, "time-based" applications (e.g. operating task and scheduling queues for actions performed at specific points in time) and ideally Google Cloud

• Able to direct technical strategy and system architecture, and collaborate with leadership on the broader product strategy

• Solid grounding in security practices. Experience working on a security audited product is a plus

• Strong communication skills and an understanding of good communication practices for remote and distributed teams

• Enjoys the challenges and opportunities of working at an early-stage/bootstrapped start-up with a small team

• Based anywhere, but working in GMT, GMT+1  or GMT+2 timezones.

• Available to work full time with some flexibility available

• Very Optional: If you are interested in developing as a people manager, this role can progress in this direction. However, if you have zero interest in people management, the role can stay as a pure IC.

We are on a mission to change how employees and companies work together to achieve big goals.  Dado is an employee experience management platform that brings together all the different ways an employee engages with a company into a single place, reducing stress and admin hours. We are a group of diverse individuals who both support each other in learning fast as well as hold each other to high standards. We care as much about how work gets done as we do that the work gets done. Communication, respect, accountability and vulnerability are integral to our progress. Team work makes the dream work.

We're building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We value transparency, autonomy, experimentation, and kind, direct feedback. We welcome nontraditional candidates, and people of all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We're an equal opportunity employer and our hiring process is designed to put you at ease and help you show your best work.

If you identify as a woman, gender diverse, ability diverse, BIPOC or queer, we want to hear from you – make sure to apply even if you feel you don’t fulfill all listed requirements.