Solution Architect / Teamlead Software Development - Real Estate Platform (f/m/x, 80-100%)

For 30 years, comparis.ch has been Switzerland’s leading comparison platform. We have been comparing prices and services from health insurers, insurance providers, banks, and telecom companies, among others, and we operate Switzerland’s largest online marketplaces for real estate and cars. Through comprehensive comparisons, we create transparency and help our users make the right decisions for their needs. With more than 80 million visitors per year, we are one of the most widely used websites in Switzerland. Nine out of ten people know us as Switzerland’s independent comparison platform.

Requirements

- Proven experience leading software engineering teams, including hiring, coaching, mentoring, and performance management

- Experience working on large-scale, high-traffic, user-facing software platforms with multiple teams contributing to the same product

- Strong software architecture and system design skills, with sound judgement when balancing product delivery, technical debt, and long-term platform investments

- Experience working closely with Product Managers and business stakeholders, paired with strong communication skills and the ability to build alignment across teams

- Hands-on engineering experience with the willingness to stay close to the technology and codebase, and the technical depth to support engineers when needed

- Experience with modern cloud-native technologies and platforms (e.g. Azure, Kubernetes); experience with .NET and React/Next.js is a plus

- Experience with Agentic Coding and a strong willingness to adopt AI-assisted software development practices

- Fluent in English; German is a plus

Responsibilities

- Lead and support the engineers working on our real estate platform across two development teams

- Set the technical direction of the product, ensure architectural consistency and alignment across the two teams and drive the modernization of our technology stack, including the migration of existing monolithic applications towards a cloud-native architecture

- Work closely with Product, Design and other engineering teams to balance feature development, technical improvements, and operational stability

- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks early and help teams resolve them

- Hire, coach, and develop engineers and support their professional growth

- Take ownership of major technical decisions and product-wide initiatives

- Represent engineering in discussions with Product Management and senior business stakeholders