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Waitwhile works to eliminate the 1 trillion hours that people spend waiting in lines every year

Waitwhile

Waitwhile works to eliminate the 1 trillion hours that people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform is trusted by over 10,000 companies worldwide and has helped more than 250 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience at places like IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Costco, Tribeca Film Festival and more.We are looking for a Solutions Engineer in Europe to join our mission to eliminate waiting and improve customer journeys. Here's what you can expect:<ul><li>This is a very hands-on, technical role, that is much broader than a typical ticket-based support position. Our Solutions Engineers partner with our customers to tackle the challenging technical issues they face in innovative ways. In this role, you will be directly responsible for helping people integrate Waitwhile into their workflows, innovate new creative solutions and and serve as the bridge between our customers and our product teams in Europe.</li><li>This opportunity is for folks who truly love problem-solving and troubleshooting, with the end goal of empowering our customers’ to reach their objectives and address any challenges with our product. We want people that have an eye for improvement and efficiency, someone who wants to work at a place where they’re encouraged to bring ideas and feedback to the table on how things could be better for both our customers and team.</li><li>This position is based in Stockholm at our beautiful bright offices on Kungsgatan 32. We're an in-person company and prefer that you work from the office at least 2 days per week as we believe the best product gets built together, live.</li></ul>What you’ll be doing 🚀<ul><li>Brainstorm with Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Sales and Support members to conceptualize customer solutions and implement Waitwhile in the most optimal way.</li><li>Debug complex issues with an understanding of both our own codebase and the many technologies employed by our customers</li><li>Solve technical problems for customers on a daily basis via chat, email, video calls or live in-person.</li><li>Build tools that will help increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Support and Success team</li><li>Influence the direction of the Waitwhile product through daily communication with our customers and consistent collaboration with our product teams</li><li>Create and update technical documentation based on customer interactions and best practices</li><li>Continually research and learn the current and future best practices of using Waitwhile - and stretch our platform to its full potential to support advanced use-cases.</li><li>Respond to advanced product and technical questions, RFPs, and security questionnaires in a precise and timely manner</li><li>Partner with our customers for API integrations and make improvements to our Developer Hub (<a target="_blank" href="http://developers.waitwhile.com">developers.waitwhile.com</a>) with new guides and tutorials</li></ul>What skills you need 📖<ul><li>Solid basic knowledge of programming. You don’t have to be an expert in one of the languages we use (JavaScript, Angular, React) but you should be proficient and have an active interest in learning them</li><li>Computer Science degree or 4+ years in an Enterprise Sales Engineering role (or similar) in a SaaS environment.</li><li>Understanding of web technologies and concepts (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs, etc.)</li><li>Solid understanding of APIs and how they can be used for advanced customer workflows and custom integrations</li><li>Confidence in contributing to technical architecture discussions and driving technical decisions</li><li>Communication - comfortably explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers</li><li>Love for talking to and helping customers to solve their problems and make them successful on the Waitwhile platform</li></ul>Bonus skills &amp; attributes 🙌<ul><li>You've worked at a Startup or built a SaaS platform</li><li>Experience using a support/ticket platform like Intercom or Zendesk</li></ul>

Solutions Engineer

Stockholm

Integration

Computer Science

Solution Implementation

APIs

Programming

Waitwhile works to eliminate the 1 trillion hours that people spend waiting in lines every year. Our platform is trusted by over 10,000 companies worldwide and has helped more than 250 million people enjoy a radically better waiting experience at places like IKEA, Louis Vuitton, Costco, Tribeca Film Festival and more.We're looking for an outstanding VP of Engineering who will support Waitwhile's mission by building a world class engineering culture and team, shaping our technology &amp; product roadmap, and championing our vision for building the best platform for our users. You'll report to our CEO and work collaboratively with our CTO and other members of the Waitwhile team to build innovative tech. We put empathy at the heart of our interactions because we believe that this trait is the most important one for effective teams. We believe in transparency and we practice what we preach. As the VP of Engineering, you will play a key role in setting the long-term direction of Waitwhile's global engineering strategy that you will help build, develop, and execute. This position is based in Stockholm at our beautiful bright offices on Kungsgatan 32. We're an in-person company and prefer that you work from the office at least 2 days per week as we believe the best product gets built together, live.What you’ll own 🚀<ul><li>The Waitwhile engineering team, consisting of 10+ geographically distributed software engineers. You will partner with product development, operations, design and UX, product marketing and analytics to heavily inform the Product roadmap with your technical perspective</li><li>Delivery execution excellence: the overarching delivery schedule and quality of product features we conceive, build and ship to delight our current customers and win new ones.</li><li>Reliability, uptime and operations: the fundamentals that ensure Waitwhile exceeds SLAs and is developed sustainably to continually optimize the ongoing cost of its support and maintenance.</li><li>Engineering talent management: the responsibility to set performance management standards that cultivate and groom personal growth within your organization.</li><li>Cross technology organizational relationships: the ability to cross boundaries and develop strong relationships with our pre and post sales team leaders and our customers.</li></ul>What kind of skills are we looking for in you 📖<ul><li>Several years experience in engineeering leadership.</li><li>Experience in high growth, dynamic, distributed teams.</li><li>Proven ability to set technical vision and build the technical product roadmap from launch to scale.</li><li>Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, diplomacy, and humility to lead and develop strong working relationships.</li><li>Very strong analytical and problem solving skills including requirements analysis and risk assessment.</li><li>Experience working with stakeholders to create hiring strategies to recruit and develop quality teams.</li><li>Knowledgeable about industry trends and best practices.</li><li>Ability to identify opportunities and challenges in the marketplace by constantly evaluating emerging and/or innovating technologies.</li><li>Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a closely related discipline is a big plus.</li></ul>

VP of Engineering

Technology Management

Software Architecture

IT Operations

Entrepreneur

Product Management

People Skills

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