Java Backend Engineering Team Lead (remote)

Qualifyze

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Qualifyze is seeking a Backend Engineering Lead to own the organization’s backend ecosystem, combining people leadership with responsibility for backend architecture, engineering standards, and delivery quality. The role ensures backend development is consistent, scalable, and aligned with product needs, while supporting the growth of backend engineers and enabling teams to deliver effectively. The Backend Lead works closely with the Head of Engineering and Chapter Leads to ensure decisions and initiatives align with the broader engineering vision.

The role covers backend strategy and architecture across teams, team development and people processes, delivery quality, cross-functional coordination, and hands-on technical guidance. The successful candidate will help build a strong backend community, improve engineering capability and execution, and contribute to critical or high-risk backend areas when needed.

Requirements

• Strong experience with the Java stack, including Spring Boot and Liquibase.
• 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 PostgreSQL performance, database modeling, and risk analysis.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the backend vision across teams, including architecture, design systems, tooling, and standards.
• Ensure consistency in how backend applications are built and maintained; own cross-team backend topics and make or enforce technical decisions when alignment is needed.
• Lead and support backend engineers to promote effective delivery, engagement, efficiency, and growth.
• Conduct regular 1:1s and performance check-ins, coach engineers, and provide development support.
• Identify skill gaps and drive training and mentoring initiatives to strengthen team capability and ways of working.
• Own and drive team people processes in alignment with Tech Leadership, including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, and compensation cycles.
• Build a strong backend community through guilds, knowledge sharing, and standards.
• Maintain awareness of department KPIs and goals and recommend continuous improvements to team performance and execution.
• Ensure backend delivery is predictable, scalable, and high quality across teams.
• Identify and resolve systemic delivery or quality issues, and help teams avoid risky, complex backend initiatives.
• Align backend work with frontend, data, and platform constraints and opportunities.
• Act as the main escalation point for backend-related decisions.
• Stay close to the codebase through selective pull request reviews and architectural guidance.
• Contribute to critical or high-risk backend areas when needed.
• Guide teams on best practices for testing, performance, accessibility, and maintainability.

Benefits

• Competitive, annually reviewed compensation package.
• Country vacation package that increases with tenure.
• Country-specific benefits, including private health care, fitness, and meal allowances.
• Annual personal development budget.
• Hybrid working mode, plus the option to work from anywhere for up to three months of the year.
• Equipment and tools to work effectively.
• Annual in-person all-company event and celebration in Europe.
• Opportunity to work with an exceptional team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed