Solutions Architect at U+

Do you work with digital projects and know how to lead people? Do you have the drive to build and ship new digital products? Great! We are looking for people like you who are proactive goal-setters, like to organize, and are efficient time planners. With us, you will get to work on interesting projects, primarily for US clients and start-ups alongside a strong team of developers, product leads, and designers.   

We are looking for a Solutions Architect who will help us foster Agile principles in our software engineering team. You will be skilled in removing obstacles and roadblocks in order for the team to deliver to the highest standards.  You will function as the right hand to our Head of Development and Tech across multiple projects, and will be an integral member of the management team at U+.  

We would be happy if you

• Know what a great user story looks like
• Take Initiative to identify and resolve issues that can improve overall efficiency and effectiveness of the project and the team
• Open to learning from others and willing to experiment and try new ways of working
• Come from a technical background
• Can demonstrate coaching and leadership skills
• Fluent in Czech and English
• Work together with product owner and the development team to translate business needs into functioning product increment
• Facilitate meetings and help the team improve
• Help teams establish realistic amount of product backlog items that go into sprint
• Educate the team and the client on agile ways
• Help the product owner and the client develop ideas into business needs
• Coordinate dependencies on other teams so that your team can focus on their work
• Knowledge of containers
• Knowledge of AWS infrastructure
• Knowledge of integration platforms

What we believe in

• Continuously improving
• We want you to fail fast and fail often as long as you are learning
• Resolving conflicts by facilitating discussion & promoting resolution
• Empowering others to achieve things they did not think possible 

What you can look forward to

• You will be a key member of a highly-skilled team that builds globally innovative products from zero to scale
• You will work with wonderful people who will become more than your coworkers
• You will have unlimited vacation, as long as you are learning and delivering
• You will get a learning budget that you can use to either elevate your current skillset or learn something new
• You will work remotely, but you will also have access to office space whenever the mood strikes you
• You will have the opportunity join us for awesome teambuilding events
• You will be able to take part in our online learning sessions, where we invite experts in their field to pass on their knowledge and experiences
• You will be able to participate in our online quiz nights, beer tastings, concerts, gaming evenings; when the coronavirus situation improves we plan on organizing activities like paddle-boating on the Vltava, minigolf, and a whole host of other fun activities

We are pushing the boundaries of web and mobile applications. We like to work on demanding projects which require us to use the experience of hundreds of projects and look for new solutions and use new technologies. The ability to think without limits, agile development and rapid prototyping give us the possibility to develop startups and work with corporates to innovate their product ideas. We've created more than 60 startups (zonky.cz, mallpay.cz, igluu.cz...) and worked with large corporations (Bridgestone/Firestone, T-Mobile, Royal Bank of Canada…). Come build with us!

About U+ and our culture

Our 85-strong in-house team has built two corporate innovation labs, exited 3 companies, invested in 140+ startups, and generated over $1B in market value.

At U+ we are team of more than 23 nationalities distributed mainly in the North America, Europe and slowly growing in Africa. We strive to build as diverse design team as possible as that's the only way how we can design solutions for everyone.