• We are looking for Backend engineering Lead who will be responsible for the overall backend ecosystem across the organization, combining people leadership with ownership of backend architecture, standards, and delivery quality
  • This role ensures that backend development and architecture is consistent, scalable, and aligned with product, while growing backend engineers and enabling teams to deliver effectively
  • The Backend Lead operates in close alignment with the Head of Engineering and Chapter Leads, ensuring all key decisions and initiatives follow the broader engineering vision
  • Define and drive the backend vision across teams (architecture, design systems, tooling, standards)
  • Ensure consistency in how backend applications are built and maintained
  • Own cross-team backend topics
  • Make and enforce key technical decisions when alignment is needed
  • Lead and support backend engineers, ensuring efficient and impactful delivery of initiatives while driving team engagement, efficiency, and growth
  • Raise the bar of backend engineering through running regular 1:1s and performance check-ins, coaching, and clear development support
  • Identify skill gaps and drive training, and mentoring initiatives to close skill gaps, improve team capability, and continuously strengthen ways of working
  • Own and drive key people processes for the team (in alignment with Tech Leadership), including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, and compensation cycles, ensuring consistency and quality of execution
  • Build a strong backend community (guilds, knowledge sharing, standards)
  • Own awareness of department KPIs/goals and drive recommendations for continuous improvement in team performance and execution
  • Ensure backend delivery is predictable, scalable, and high quality across teams
  • Identify and resolve systemic delivery or quality issues
  • Support teams to avoid risky complex backend initiatives
  • Align backend work with frontend/data/platform constraints and opportunities
  • Act as the main escalation point for backend-related decisions
  • Stay close to the codebase through selective PR reviews and architectural guidance
  • Contribute to critical or high-risk backend areas when needed
  • Guide teams on best practices (testing, performance, accessibility, maintainability)
Benefits
  • Truly flexible schedules
  • A selection of xqbhyrx free drinks at the office
  • Regular company events
  • Mentoring and career development
  • The hotel room is your office - we allow working from another country up to 3 months a year
  • Flexible compensation plan - our Edenred and become.1 cards are an open door to customisable benefits and tax savings
Qualifications
  • Strong experience with Java stack (SpringBoot, Liquidbase, etc.)
  • Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders
  • Solid understanding of Java and Postgres performance, database modeling and risk analysis
  • Proven experience leading backend initiatives across multiple teams
  • Experience defining architecture and driving adoption at scale
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction

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