CMS Backend Technical Lead — Java/Spring Architecture & Growth

Tamedia Publikationen Deutschschweiz AG; Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks vacation

Flexible working models

Birthday day off

Discounts on services

Health promotion services

Unpaid vacation up to six months

Half days off before holidays

Referral program CHF 2000

Digital subscriptions

Job summary

Tamedia Publikationen Deutschschweiz AG is seeking a Technical Lead to own Unity’s backend codebase, architecture and roadmap. You will lead four engineers across Zurich and Belgrade, mentoring the team while hands-on coding.

You’ll design and maintain scalable services, APIs, and messaging patterns, and drive modernization efforts to keep the platform future-ready. The role balances hands-on engineering with people leadership, collaborating with product owners to shape requirements and

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on backend engineering experience.
• Mastery of Java / Spring Boot / Databases.
• First leadership experience and coaching mindset.

Responsibilities

• Own Unity’s codebase, architecture and technical roadmap.
• Lead a team of four engineers in Zurich and Belgrade.
• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Define code quality standards, CI/CD pipelines and DX improvements.

Skills

Backend engineering

Java

Spring Boot

Distributed systems

Leadership

Unix/Linux

Architecture

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

MariaDB

RabbitMQ

Elasticsearch

Job description

Tamedia Publikationen Deutschschweiz AG is seeking a Technical Lead to own Unity’s backend codebase, architecture and roadmap. You will lead four engineers across Zurich and Belgrade, mentoring the team while hands-on coding.

You’ll design and maintain scalable services, APIs, and messaging patterns, and drive modernization efforts to keep the platform future-ready. The role balances hands-on engineering with people leadership, collaborating with product owners to shape requirements and