Engineering Lead - Backend

Job Summary

A company is looking for an Engineering Lead - Backend Architecture (Java, Distributed Systems & Security).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of 7-10 backend engineers, ensuring delivery, quality, and sustainable execution
• Drive the adoption of AI-assisted software development practices across the team
• Own and evolve the architecture of large-scale, security-critical cloud services with Java-based microservices

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of commercial software development experience, including 5+ years of hands-on Java development
• Proven experience in a technical leadership or people management role
• Strong experience designing and maintaining distributed, cloud-native systems
• Hands-on experience with security-related technologies and modern REST services using Spring Boot
• Experience with Docker-based deployments, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure