Business Automation Engineer
Zurich
Product Engineering – Engineering /
Full-time /
Hybrid
🍇 About grape:
Our entrepreneurial spirit drives us in what we do and what we are passionate about. Our mission is to become the premier health partner in the insurance business. Recognising the need for innovation in the traditional employee insurance model we are set to revolutionize the employee insurance industry. We help companies support people before and after they get sick and to make more of their time. Our insurance solutions reduce monotonous and manual work for employees, doctors, HR & payroll managers. As we strive to lead a technology-driven transformation, we put employees first.
At grape we pride ourselves on our people and our culture. We continue to grow fast and that’s where you come in. Our team is dynamic, diverse and full of creative ideas. Want to join? We can’t wait to get to know you!
🚀 Your role:
As a Business Automation Engineer at grape, you will play a crucial role in automating workflows, optimizing processes, and building internal tools that enable our teams to work more efficiently and effectively. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, Operations, People, Sales, Claims Management, Finance & Risk and other teams, to identify areas for improvement, and implement automation solutions across the organization. Your work will directly impact the scalability and success of our team. The primary role is to ensure that technology systems and tools are aligned with the business objectives and operational requirements.
🔍 What you’ll do:
- Design, build, deploy and maintain scalable short and long-term technical solutions tailored to meet operational business requirements.
- Create and maintain postgresQL databases, and develop workflows, scripts, automations, forms and tools to improve the operational efficiency of our teams.
- Support in developing our internal technical processes and diagram data flows.
- Provide technical support for business operations, troubleshooting and resolving issues as they arise.
- Support with the technical implementation of automation tools to improve the speed and accuracy
- Collaboration
- Work with the engineering team to understand long-term plans and ensure alignment between the timeline for the development of internal tools, and critical business processes.
- Work together with business operations to identify & execute on priority projects that enhance business efficiency through automation.
- Communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders effectively.
- Translate complex technical concepts into understandable terms, graphs and process diagrams for non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear and effective communication and strengthening the team's understanding of our workflows and automations.
🛠️ What you’ll need:
- Demonstrated experience in automation engineering, software development, or a similar role, preferably in a fast-growing startup environment.
- Proficiency in scripting (AppScript) and programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, or similar.
- Experience with databases (PostgresQL) and data analysis tools.
- Previous experience with low-code and no-code tools (Zapier, Make, Retool etc.)
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently.
- Strong problem solving and project management skills.
- Adaptability and willingness to learn about new technologies.
- Language: Proficient in English (German or French is a bonus)
🤝 What we offer in return:
- Empowering workplace: Join a passionate team and an empowering workplace where you are given the ownership, tools, and support to make decisions and take initiative. Together we grow and build innovative solutions.
- Hybrid setup: Enjoy the flexibility of our hybrid work setup, with the freedom to work remotely or from our offices in Basel and Zurich. On Thursdays, our team day, we meet together in our Zurich office.
- Salary: A competitive compensation package with the opportunity to obtain phantom stocks options.
- Results-Oriented Work Environment: In a full time (5 days per week/42 hours), we encourage you to focus on objectives and delivering high-quality work rather than sticking to a fixed schedule.
- Learn & Grow: We support you in improving your skills, acquiring new knowledge and advancing your career. We also allocate a CHF 1'500.- budget annually.
- Wellbeing: Work-life balance is important to us and we foster a supportive work environment. You will have access to 12 mental health sessions per year.
- Leave: Enjoy 5 weeks of annual leave (25 days) of paid vacation and 9 public holidays.
- Travel Support: We will provide you with a SBB half-fare card.
- Relocation Support: We aim to make the transition as smooth as possible. If you are relocating from the EU we will cover your relocation costs and visa.
- Social gatherings: Together we have fun at our monthly team events and bi-annual team retreats.
🏁 How we hire:
When making a hiring decision, we look for a match in four main areas: skills and technical abilities, mindset & values and we assess them in the following three steps.
Step 1 - Your Application: Our talent acquisition team and hiring manager will review your application and respond within one week.
Step 2 - Your Motivation: We'll invite you to a 30-minute motivational chat with our talent acquisition team so we can get to know each other better.
Step 3 - Your Role & Culture Fit: You’ll have two more interviews to confirm your fit for the selected role and our culture. In case of highly technical roles we’ll additionally assess the specific skills you’ll need for your role.
A variety of experiences, perspectives, and voices make us the company we are and we’d love to hear about yours!
