Lead Engineer at Perspective.co

Our mission is to enable passionate people to grow the businesses they love. We are doing this by helping 5.000+ entrepreneurs with the fastest and easiest growth marketing platform. So you work work directly impact thousands of entrepreneurs & their customers.

We're 100% bootstrapped & profitable. With less than 40 people we were able to scale our company to over €11M ARR. Now we are on our journey towards 100M ARR – and we believe by staying a small team with highly talented people we will get there fastest. 🌟

We're in an exciting phase, expanding internationally and maturing our product and culture at the same time. We prioritize great execution and high impact - we strive for highest quality in what we do, as we believe the world doesn’t need more mediocrity.

We foster a culture of ownership and freedom in a fully remote environment across Europe, enabling us to build the lives we want while making maximal impact. Come join our team of extraordinary people! 🚀

We’re looking for a hands-on technical leader to shape the future of our Contacts platform.

Leads are just the beginning; turning them into customers or employees is where the real magic happens. In this role, you’ll lead the development of features and tools that enable sales reps, recruiters, and marketers to manage their contacts with ease and close deals seamlessly. Your focus will be on delivering reliable, user-friendly solutions that make managing and nurturing contacts effortless and effective.

Your leadership and technical expertise will drive innovation in this critical area of our platform, helping us empower our customers to grow and succeed.

• Get your hands dirty in the code, making sure everything is clean, scalable, and built to last. You’ll set the bar for your team’s tech decisions.
• Lead the squad, ensuring team members are aligned, motivated, and unblocked
• Be a central point of contact for other squads and departments to drive cross-team collaboration
• Ensure a healthy team culture where everyone enjoys the ride and takes ownership of their work
• Facilitate alignment meetings, including weekly squad lead meetings and occasional exchanges with other teams (e.g. support)
• Hold the team accountable for project progress and quality, with regular check-ins and retros to identify and address bottlenecks
• Ensure the team follows best practices (e.g. Clean Code) while pushing the product forward
• Remove blockers to maintain high velocity and quality across the squad
• Host 1:1 meetings to tackle individual topics and bottlenecks
• Manage work distribution and capacity planning within the team to keep everything on track

• At least 8 years of experience in software development in a product SaaS environment, including a few years of hands-on technical leadership
• You have a deep understanding of tech and solid knowledge in TypeScript. We use Node.js and Next.js as our main frameworks.
• You have a solid understanding of distributed systems and modern web architecture principles, ensuring scalable, reliable solutions
• You articulate technical concepts clearly and keep your team and stakeholders informed with consistent, proactive updates
• You're passionate about great design and creating fast, seamless user experiences, with a focus on browser performance and page speed optimization
• You know your design patterns, applying them when they make sense to deliver practical, solution-oriented outcomes
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, balancing velocity with high-quality outcomes
• You're ambitious and driven to push boundaries while maintaining an eye for detail and delivering results
• You bring fun and inspiration to the team, fostering a positive, collaborative environment where creativity and ownership thrive
• You're all about collaboration — mentoring, sharing knowledge, and empowering your team to grow and succeed while building strong relationships within and across teams

If you think this job is the right job for you, even though you do not perfectly match the profile, we would still love to hear from you. 🤗

• Remote & Freedom | We strongly believe that every work environment needs to be ideal and fitted to the person. For this very reason, all our team members work remotely – in their own much needed way. That’s how we can ensure that all our talents have much freedom to create the best results possible.
• Responsibility, Ownership & Impact | At Perspective, all our team members have a voice. We value every opinion and encourage all to speak their mind. Only with team effort, we can create something great. We believe in our team and therefore, give them much responsibility. Even if we fail, we learn from it, get back up and continue to succeed. It is part of the game and we know it.
• Personal & Professional Growth | Your development is our priority. With our intensive onboarding, feedback talks and trainings, we foster your personal and professional development. One of our core value is “Keep Growing” which we portray in everything we do.
• Best Equipment & Remote Budget | Our company is build on the USP of quality and we want to keep it that way. To keep up the quality, we only provide the best equipment to our team: For example, every new team member receives an Apple MacBook Pro for their work and a monthly remote working budget.
• Team Events | We know working solely remotely can make it difficult to build a strong team spirit. However, at Perspective we focus deeply on team building by hosting various team events throughout the year. We understand the need of interaction face-to-face and strongly encourage it.
• Cordial & passionate team | Last, but not least, we are the most cordial team you can imagine. We love working together, respect each other and always value each others opinions. We care deeply about our team members and are always down for a good virtual after work hangout.