- 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
- Versátil 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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📌 Java Backend Engineering Lead (Barcelona)
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