Java Backend Team Lead

We are looking for a strong Java Backend Team Lead to lead a high-performing development squad in a large-scale, production-grade environment.

This is a leadership-first role with strong technical ownership: managing people, guiding architecture and design, ensuring delivery and stability – while not necessarily coding on a daily basis.

What you’ll do

• Lead and manage a backend-focused development squad (~10 people), including backend, mobile and QA
• Serve as a technical authority: architecture decisions, design patterns, best practices
• Own end-to-end delivery: development, production readiness, stability and scalability
• Mentor and grow developers, set engineering standards and development culture
• Drive development of distributed, high-availability, event-driven systems
• Work closely with product and stakeholders on features and delivery

Requirements

• Strong backend background – must
• 5–7 years of hands-on Java backend development
• Proven experience leading development teams (people management is mandatory)
• Java + Spring / Spring Boot – mandatory
• Kafka – mandatory
• Docker & Kubernetes – mandatory
• Experience with AWS / Cloud environments – mandatory
• Experience with MongoDB
• SQL experience (any relational DB – advantage)
• Strong knowledge of frameworks and practical application of design patterns
• Experience with production systems, CI/CD and microservices