Java Backend Engineering Team Lead

Qualifyze; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Truly flexible schedules

Regular company events

Selection of free drinks at the office

Mentoring and career development

Hotel room as office – up to 3 months/

Job summary

Qualifyze is looking for a Backend Engineering Lead to own the backend ecosystem across the organization in Barcelona, Spain. You will combine people leadership with ownership of backend architecture, standards, and delivery quality, aligning with product and frontend constraints to enable teams to deliver effectively.

You will mentor engineers, drive performance reviews, and help shape the engineering vision in close collaboration with the Head of Engineering and Chapter Leads.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of backend teams delivering scalable services.
• Strong expert knowledge of Java stack and database design.
• Experience defining architecture and driving adoption at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead the backend ecosystem across the organization and own backend architecture, standards, and delivery quality.
• Align backend work with product and frontend constraints, coaching engineers and improving ways of working.
• Drive hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and compensation cycles for backend teams.
• Collaborate with Head of Engineering and Chapter Leads to execute the engineering vision.
• Ensure backend delivery is predictable, scalable, and high quality across teams.

Skills

Java stack

SpringBoot

Liquibase

Postgres

Architecture design

Leadership

Mentoring engineers

Job description

• We are looking for Backend engineering Lead who will be responsible for the overall backend ecosystem across the organization, combining people leadership with ownership of backend architecture, standards, and delivery quality
• This role ensures that backend development and architecture is consistent, scalable, and aligned with product, while growing backend engineers and enabling teams to deliver effectively
• The Backend Lead operates in close alignment with the Head of Engineering and Chapter Leads, ensuring all key decisions and initiatives follow the broader engineering vision
• Define and drive the backend vision across teams (architecture, design systems, tooling, standards)
• Ensure consistency in how backend applications are built and maintained
• Own cross-team backend topics
• Make and enforce key technical decisions when alignment is needed
• Lead and support backend engineers, ensuring efficient and impactful delivery of initiatives while driving team engagement, efficiency, and growth
• Raise the bar of backend engineering through running regular 1:1s and performance check-ins, coaching, and clear development support
• Identify skill gaps and drive training, and mentoring initiatives to close skill gaps, improve team capability, and continuously strengthen ways of working
• Own and drive key people processes for the team (in alignment with Tech Leadership), including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, and compensation cycles, ensuring consistency and quality of execution
• Build a strong backend community (guilds, knowledge sharing, standards)
• Own awareness of department KPIs/goals and drive recommendations for continuous improvement in team performance and execution
• Ensure backend delivery is predictable, scalable, and high quality across teams
• Identify and resolve systemic delivery or quality issues
• Support teams to avoid risky complex backend initiatives
• Align backend work with frontend/data/platform constraints and opportunities
• Act as the main escalation point for backend-related decisions
• Stay close to the codebase through selective PR reviews and architectural guidance
• Contribute to critical or high-risk backend areas when needed
• Guide teams on best practices (testing, performance, accessibility, maintainability)

Benefits

• 🍼 Truly flexible schedules
• 🎉 Regular company events
• 🍹 A selection of free drinks at the office
• 🎓 Mentoring and career development
• ✈️ The hotel room is your office - we allow working from another country up to 3 months a year
• 💳 Flexible compensation plan - our Edenred and become.1 cards are an open door to customisable benefits and tax savings

Experience working with cross-functional stakeholdersExperience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical directionStrong experience with Java stack (SpringBoot, Liquidbase, etc.)Proven experience leading backend initiatives across multiple teamsSolid understanding of Java and Postgres performance, database modeling and risk analysisExperience defining architecture and driving adoption at scale