Backend Engineering Lead - Java/Kotlin, Cloud & Microservices

ING Hubs Philippines; Metro Manila; On-site; PHP 2,200,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leadership role

Hands-on + people leadership

Global collaboration

Career growth

Job summary

ING Hubs Philippines is seeking a hands-on Team Lead to guide a group of 10–12 backend engineers, delivering secure, scalable banking solutions while mentoring talent.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Architects and Business Analysts to align delivery with business goals, drive modern engineering practices, and uphold high standards of code quality and reliability.

This role blends people leadership with technical delivery in a fast-paced, cloud-enabled environment across global teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of people leadership within software engineering.
• Proven ability to coach and develop engineers.
• Experience delivering enterprise-scale technology solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with Agile delivery models.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a 10-12 backend engineers and contribute to delivery.
• Guide architectural decisions and DevOps practices.
• Partner with product owners, architects and business analysts to align delivery with business goals.
• Mentor, grow talent and foster accountability and learning.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices.

Skills

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Verbal & written communication

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Java (11+)

Kotlin

Spring Framework

Spring Boot

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git

DevOps practices

Job description

ING Hubs Philippines is seeking a hands-on Team Lead to guide a group of 10–12 backend engineers, delivering secure, scalable banking solutions while mentoring talent.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Architects and Business Analysts to align delivery with business goals, drive modern engineering practices, and uphold high standards of code quality and reliability.

This role blends people leadership with technical delivery in a fast-paced, cloud-enabled environment across global teams.