I'm looking for a Lead Backend Software Engineer to shape backend architecture, drive engineering excellence, and guide teams building high‑performance digital products used at scale. This is a hands‑on leadership role where you’ll influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and ensure backend systems are robust, secure, and future‑ready.
What you’ll be doing
What you’ll be doing
- Lead backend architecture – Define and evolve scalable, secure, high‑performance backend systems
- Set engineering standards – Champion best practices, secure coding (OWASP), and high‑quality delivery
- Hands‑on technical contribution – Support critical backend work and review complex code
- Guide teams & mentor engineers – Facilitate design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision‑making
- Improve tooling & CI/CD – Enhance pipelines, build processes, and operational workflows
- Drive continuous improvement – Reduce technical debt and introduce modern backend approaches
- Support compliance – Ensure systems align with standards such as ISO27001 and PCI
- Strong backend engineering experience with Java (11 ) & Spring Boot
- Event‑driven architecture expertise – Kafka or similar
- Cloud experience – ideally AWS; Kubernetes knowledge beneficial
- Deep understanding of microservices, REST APIs & distributed systems
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases
- Strong CI/CD, automated testing & DevOps awareness
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams
- Comfortable communicating technical risks to non‑technical stakeholders
- 3 month rolling contract
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