Engineering Lead

The Midaxo SaaS platform has been used by hundreds of global customers to close over $1 trillion of corporate development & M&A transactions. It is the leading corporate development dealmaking productivity platform. Midaxo enables frequent acquirers to successfully convert their strategy into value by repeatably taking an opportunity through identification, diligence, close, integration and value realization.

Midaxo prides itself on the value it creates, the team it has built, and the customers it serves. We are a fast-moving and non-hierarchical organization where each team member is allowed to support others and close gaps as they see fit. We embrace the latest technologies and have an ambitious product roadmap to remain the industry leaders. With this, the engineering leader role shapes our future, drives our product differentiation, and will directly see and feel its impact on customers and the broader Midaxo team.

Requirements

Midaxo Ltd is looking for an Engineering Lead to set up and lead a SaaS software development team in Boston. The team in Boston will be an extension to Midaxo's current development team in Helsinki, Finland which consists of around 20 cloud software development professionals working with the Midaxo SaaS product.

As an Engineering Lead you will act as a leader of a dedicated development team, ensuring that the developers become fully productive during sprints and that the team is working towards a common goal. The role includes team management, including acting as scrum manager, as well as architectural design and hands-on coding. You will work in a close collaboration with the Product Manager that provides the team with product requirements. Together with your team, you will ensure the best possible product range for Midaxo's customers, develop new product features and make possible improvements. Midaxo operates in a fully serverless cloud environment, specifically in AWS and utilizes services such as CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS AppSync, AWS EventBridge. Following tools, technologies and frameworks are utilized: Python, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB.

We are looking for a person with several years of experience in software development. To succeed in this role, you need to have strong skills in AWS and Python/React, as well as experience with developing Artifical Intelligence and SaaS applications in general. As a person, you have a proactive and self-driven attitude and willingness to guide others by sharing your knowledge and by providing support. Ideally you have also gained previous experience of team lead roles, but we are primarily looking for a person who is motivated to lead a team with an example and is not afraid to roll up their sleeves with coding. This is a full-time, permanent position. Midaxo has an office in downtown Boston and remote working is possible.

Qualifications and skills• Several years of experience in software development (fullstack, frontend and/or backend development). Previous experience of team lead roles.• Strong skills in AWS cloud environment and in React and/or Python.• Knowledge of relational databases and of microservice architectures.• Experience of working with a SaaS product and AI • A proactive, hands-on attitude and willingness to lead people by example.

Benefits• An opportunity to be part of a company that is revolutionizing the way M&A is done• A meaningful and responsible position that enables you to utilize your technical skills and take responsibility of your work• Modern tools and technologies as well as a new architecture to work with• The support of an international, ambitious, and talented team and a result-driven but easy-going company culture• A collaborative, flexible work environment• Health insurance, dental insurance, HRA, FSA, 401(k).