Real-Time Backend Tech Lead: APIs & Performance

Kintary; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kintary in Dublin is seeking a technically adept Technical Team Lead to guide a backend engineering team responsible for real-time APIs powering our products and services.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will design, build and improve software while mentoring engineers, driving engineering excellence and collaborating with architects to align with the wider strategy. The role requires 7+ years in backend development and a passion for latency-sensitive systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend software engineering experience, including several years in a Technical Lead, Staff Engineer or similar leadership role.
• Proven experience building and operating high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and APIs.
• Strong experience with event-driven architectures and production systems with demanding uptime and performance requirements.
• A passion for mentoring engineers and creating high-performing engineering teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Leading the technical delivery of a team of backend engineers, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to a high standard.
• Remaining hands-on in software development, contributing to architecture implementation, coding, code reviews and technical problem solving.
• Driving engineering excellence through best practices, high-quality code, automated testing and continuous improvement.
• Ensuring our APIs meet performance, scalability and reliability expectations, including latency, accuracy and availability targets.
• Managing technical risks, dependencies and technical debt, particularly around integrations with external data providers.
• Collaborating with architects to implement technical solutions aligned with the wider engineering strategy.
• Coaching and mentoring engineers through technical guidance, knowledge sharing and regular feedback.
• Supporting recruitment, onboarding and the technical assessment of new engineers.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient, customer-focused solutions while continuously improving our engineering practices.
• Taking part in on-call rotations, responding to production incidents, and helping us learn and improve from every incident

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend engineering

Mentoring engineers

Communication skills

Problem solving

Continuous improvement mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

Java 21

Spring Boot

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Docker

ArgoCD

DBUnit

TDD/BDD

Grafana

Micrometer

Job description

Kintary in Dublin is seeking a technically adept Technical Team Lead to guide a backend engineering team responsible for real-time APIs powering our products and services.

In this hands-on leadership role, you will design, build and improve software while mentoring engineers, driving engineering excellence and collaborating with architects to align with the wider strategy. The role requires 7+ years in backend development and a passion for latency-sensitive systems.