Hybrid Backend Tech Lead — Real‑Time APIs

Gaelvert Development; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Co-working space in Dublin

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Gym reimbursement

Learning pocket

Work from anywhere

Pension plan

Cycle to work & tax saver

Job summary

Gaelvert Development in Dublin is seeking a Team Technical Lead to guide a backend engineering team delivering real-time APIs powering our products. This hands-on leadership role combines architecture design, coding, reviews, and mentoring to raise the team's technical performance.

You'll work with architects, product managers and engineers to ensure scalable, reliable systems, driving engineering excellence, robust testing, and timely delivery while fostering a culture of innovation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience with leadership in Technical Lead or Staff Engineer roles.
• Experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and APIs.
• Strong background in event-driven architectures and production systems with uptime and performance requirements.
• Mentoring engineers and leading teams to high performance.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical delivery of a backend team and ensure on-time delivery and high quality.
• Remain hands-on in development: architecture, coding, reviews, and problem solving.
• Drive engineering excellence with best practices, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure APIs meet latency, scalability, and reliability targets.
• Manage technical risks, dependencies and debt, including external data provider integrations.
• Collaborate with architects to align solutions with the engineering strategy.
• Coach and mentor engineers through guidance, knowledge sharing and feedback.
• Support recruitment and onboarding of new engineers.
• Work with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, customer-focused solutions.

Skills

Backend leadership

Technical leadership

Real-time data platforms

Java

Spring ecosystem

Event-driven architecture

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

Java 21

Spring (Boot, Security)

Reactive Programming

Kafka / RabbitMQ

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

TDD/BDD

Prometheus

Grafana

Micrometer

Job description

Gaelvert Development in Dublin is seeking a Team Technical Lead to guide a backend engineering team delivering real-time APIs powering our products. This hands-on leadership role combines architecture design, coding, reviews, and mentoring to raise the team's technical performance.

You'll work with architects, product managers and engineers to ensure scalable, reliable systems, driving engineering excellence, robust testing, and timely delivery while fostering a culture of innovation.