Technical Lead, Distributed Backend Architect (Remote EU)

Telia Company; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Workation

Extra vacation days

Discounts on Telia services

Telia Kids Club

Sports activities

Job summary

Telia is seeking a Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams building our Digital Services & Channels platform. You will evolve architecture, improve reliability, and guide architectural decisions in production environments.

The ideal candidate has deep experience building distributed backends, strong engineering judgment, and a track record of leading technical decisions across teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building, modernizing, and operating distributed backend systems in Java
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, performance, observability, and cloud-native architectures
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple teams

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the technical architecture of the platform.
• Design scalable, resilient, and maintainable distributed systems.
• Lead architectural decisions and drive long-term platform evolution.
• Solve the most challenging production and performance problems.
• Improve reliability, observability, security, and developer experience.
• Partner with engineering teams to reduce technical debt and simplify existing systems.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and hands-on collaboration.
• Work with Product and Engineering Managers to balance technical sustainability with business delivery.

Skills

Distributed backends

Distributed systems

Java ecosystem

Architectural leadership

Technical decisions

Mentoring engineers

Observability

AI-assisted tooling

Tools

Java

AI-assisted development tools

Cloud-native

Job description

Telia is seeking a Technical Lead to provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams building our Digital Services & Channels platform. You will evolve architecture, improve reliability, and guide architectural decisions in production environments.

The ideal candidate has deep experience building distributed backends, strong engineering judgment, and a track record of leading technical decisions across teams.