Who you are

- Strong experience with Java stack (SpringBoot, Liquidbase, etc.)

- Proven experience leading backend initiatives across multiple teams

- Experience defining architecture and driving adoption at scale

- Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction

- Solid understanding of Java and Postgres performance, database modeling and risk analysis

- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders

What the job involves

- 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

- ? Mentoring and career development

- ? Truly flexible schedules

- ✈️ The hotel room is your office - we allow working from another country up to 3 months a year

- ? Regular company events

- ? Adaptable compensation plan - our Edenred and become.1 cards are an open door to customisable benefits and tax savings

- ? A selection of free drinks at the office

📌 Java Backend Engineering Team Lead (Barcelona)
🏢 Qualifyze
📍 Barcelona