Lead Backend Engineer

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 140.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineering Lead to guide a 4–5 person team, shaping technical roadmaps for mobile-first, consumer-facing apps used by tens of thousands of daily active users.

You will own the backend architecture, drive performance, scale systems on AWS, and collaborate with iOS/Android, Product, Data, and DevOps in a fully remote, distributed environment.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years of professional backend development experience in production environments.
• Experience owning backend architecture for a mobile-first, consumer-facing app.
• Experience building and scaling high-traffic systems with focus on performance and reliability.
• Excellent communication skills with non-technical stakeholders (CEO, Product).
• Background in a startup or fast-moving product company, comfortable with changing priorities and pragmatic trade-offs.

Aufgaben

• Lead and mentor a team of backend engineers (4–5), including 1:1s, feedback, and performance management.
• Translate product and business goals into clear technical roadmaps, sprint plans, and backend priorities.
• Own the backend architecture and technical vision for mobile-first, consumer-facing apps used by tens of thousands of daily active users.
• Drive and oversee implementation of new features for our mobile apps, collaborating with iOS/Android, Product, Data, DevOps and Trust & Safety teams.
• Make architectural decisions around scalability, performance, reliability, data flows, and infrastructure on AWS.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, improve API speed and caching strategies.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, coding standards, code reviews, and deployment/CI pipelines.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and design specs for backend systems and major initiatives.
• Handle prioritisation and trade-offs in a fast-moving environment with changing quarterly priorities.
• Be hands-on with coding and code reviews, especially for complex areas, and participate in critical production incidents.

Kenntnisse

Backend leadership

Roadmap planning

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Cloud AWS

Code reviews

Documentation

Remote collaboration

Tools

Ruby on Rails

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of mid/senior backend engineers (4–5), including 1:1s, feedback, and performance management
• Translate product and business goals into clear technical roadmaps, sprint plans, and backend priorities
• Own the backend architecture and technical vision for mobile-first, consumer-facing apps used by tens of thousands of daily active users
• Drive and oversee implementation of new features for our mobile apps, working closely with iOS/Android, Product, Data, DevOps and Trust & Safety teams
• Take key architectural decisions around scalability, performance, reliability, data flows, and infrastructure on AWS
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, improve API speed and reliability, and design effective caching and database strategies
• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, coding standards, code review practices, and deployment/CI pipelines
• Create and maintain clear technical documentation and design specs for backend systems and major initiatives
• Handle prioritisation and trade-offs in a fast-moving environment with changing quarterly priorities
• Be hands-on with coding and code reviews, especially for complex or high-impact areas, and step in during critical production incidents

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional backend development experience in production environments and most recent experience in leading backend teams
• Proven experience owning backend architecture for a mobile-first, consumer-facing app
• Strong hands-on expertise with any OOP language - Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, C# (must be willing to work with Ruby on Rails)
• Experience building and scaling high-traffic systems (over 10k+ daily active users) with a focus on performance and reliability
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, relational databases, caching, and performance optimization
• Practical experience working in the cloud (preferably AWS) and collaborating closely with DevOps / infrastructure engineers
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical topics and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders (e.g. CEO, Product)
• Background in a startup or fast-moving product companies, comfortable with changing priorities and making pragmatic trade-offs
• Strong product mindset, user-focused, impact-driven, and able to connect technical decisions to business outcomes
• Comfortable taking ownership, making decisions, and leading in a fully remote, distributed team environment