Senior Backend Developer/ Team Lead

Main Resposibilities:

• Leading Development Efforts: Overseeing backend development, ensuring alignment with the product's technical vision, and fostering a culture of technical excellence.
  
• Hands-On Development: Designing, building, and optimising backend applications and APIs using modern Java technologies.
  
• Team Mentorship: Providing guidance, performing code reviews, and fostering continuous improvement within the development team.
  
• Collaboration: Partnering with Product Owners to define functional and non-functional requirements and ensure efficient delivery of business objectives.
  
• Quality Assurance: Driving best practices in coding, architecture, and testing while maintaining clean and maintainable codebases.
  
• Technical Strategy: Identifying technical debt, proposing mitigation strategies, and presenting alternative technical solutions to achieve long-term scalability and performance.
  
• Monitoring & Support: Leading deployments, ensuring system performance, and providing second-line support for live environments.
  
• Process Optimisation: Driving initiatives related to CI/CD and contributing to the improvement of internal tools and processes.
  

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in backend development, with at least 2 years in a team leadership role.
  
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and REST/SOAP APIs.
  
• Proficiency in GitLab, MS SQL, and containerisation technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
  
• Experience in building and maintaining microservice architectures.
  
• Strong understanding of user authentication, authorisation, and security best practices.
  
• Hands-on experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
  
• Proven ability to mentor and lead development teams while fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing.
  
• Strong accountability for project outcomes, with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
  
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) and working in cross-functional teams.
  

Nice to have:

• Experience working with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Elasticsearch.
  
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and other project management tools.
  
• Experience in developing CI/CD pipelines and contributing to internal tooling initiatives of these skills.
  

Benefits

• Solid, competitive salary.
  
• Work in multilingual, multinational and multicultural environment on international projects
  
• Medical care