The Agile Engineer
We have many different projects and teams at local.ch. From web to mobile and desktop, we combine a mix of agile practices, collaboration and code reviews to get things done. Developers work closely with product owners and designers, so engineers are truly part of the whole product development process. Teams work together and play together, in a cross-functional way, to break "bubbles" and silos.
Best Practices
We believe in convention over configuration, iterative development, design-first, clean APIs and peer code reviews. We ♥ testing. We're hackers, engaged by things like Open Data, embedded hardware and hack day projects.
Great Teams == Great Results
We have small teams of A-players who like to solve challenging problems. We're really into visualizations and analytics, and enjoy playing with Graphite and have several infoscreens around the office. We believe in learning and coding together, we're not afraid of new tools or new techniques. We like a simple release process and enjoy focusing on one thing at a time.
Open Positions
- Mobile Engineer
- Frontend Web Developer
- Java Software Developer
- Senior Information Retrieval Engineer
Apply Today!
No cover letter required. Simply send your CV and a link to your Github account (or code examples) to hrz@local.ch.
Community
We take part in Switzerland's developer community. Our engineers regularly attend:
- Webtuesday
- Rails Hock
- JS Zurich
- Webmonday
- many conferences across Europe, e.g. Frozen Rails, Oredev, JSConf.eu, Berlin Buzzwords, Railsberry, FOWA, ...
Additionally we often host a Ruby Hack night in our office.
What we offer:
- Small and dedicated international team with start-up character and a lot of freedom.
- Deploy great applications to millions of users daily
- Solve interesting problems and create new products and services
- Hackdays and fun projects, time to work on your own ideas
- A top-of-the-line MacBook Pro or Air, and a 27" Cinema Display
- Office in Zurich, 2 minute walk from the main train station
- Free snacks, coffee, tea, full kitchen, great meeting rooms
- An endless supply of whiteboard markers and drawing paper
- Live and work in Switzerland, a wonderful country with one of the highest standards of living worldwide.
About local.ch
local.ch is Switzerland's phonebook directory. Available as printed phone book, online and on mobile devices. Our core competence is to bring people and businesses together.
With a total of 3.7 million unique visitors and around 15 million visits per month, local.ch is one of Switzerland's top websites.
Place of work
local.ch ag, Konradstrasse 12
CH-8005 Zürich, Switzerland
Hackdays
From time to time we organise internal Hackdays where everyone can work on his/her own projects and ideas. We enjoy the freedom and the results at the end of the day are always amazing.
Read about our last Hackday (German only)
Impressions of our fun projects
Visualization of Swiss Addresses
