Java Backend Sr Lead

Job description

We are seeking a Backend Lead at the Senior Staff Engineer/Sr Manager level to provide technical leadership across our backend architecture. This is a senior individual-contributor role with broad scope, responsible for shaping engineering strategy, driving cross-team technical initiatives, and setting the long-term architectural vision for backend systems. **Key Responsibilities** - Define and own the long-term technical architecture and strategy across multiple backend systems - Act as a technical authority, resolving the most complex and ambiguous engineering challenges - Drive cross-team initiatives involving platform scalability, reliability, and system-wide performance - Establish engineering standards, governance, and best practices at an organizational level - Provide technical mentorship to Staff Engineers, Tech Leads, and senior engineers across teams - Partner with senior leadership (Engineering, Product, Security) to align technical strategy with business objectives - Lead evaluation and adoption of new technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns - Anticipate scaling challenges and proactively design solutions ahead of business growth - Lead root-cause analysis and resolution for major production incidents - Influence hiring strategy and engineering culture at a senior level **Required Qualifications** - 7-10 + years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years operating at a Staff level or above - Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale, highly available distributed systems - Deep expertise in backend languages, frameworks, and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) - Proven track record of leading cross-functional, multi-team technical initiatives - Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation - Exceptional system design skills, including experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems - Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills - Experience shaping engineering strategy and influencing decisions beyond a single team **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience scaling engineering organizations through hyper-growth phases - Public speaking, technical writing, or open-source contributions demonstrating thought leadership - Experience with multi-region, globally distributed systems - Background in platform or infrastructure engineering at scale - Aviation domain experience External Job Description External Job Description **Role Summary** We are seeking a Backend Lead at the Senior Staff Engineer level to provide technical leadership across our backend architecture. This is a senior individual-contributor role with broad scope, responsible for shaping engineering strategy, driving cross-team technical initiatives, and setting the long-term architectural vision for backend systems. **Key Responsibilities** - Define and own the long-term technical architecture and strategy across multiple backend systems - Act as a technical authority, resolving the most complex and ambiguous engineering challenges - Drive cross-team initiatives involving platform scalability, reliability, and system-wide performance - Establish engineering standards, governance, and best practices at an organisational level - Provide technical mentorship to Staff Engineers, Tech Leads, and senior engineers across teams - Partner with senior leadership (Engineering, Product, Security) to align technical strategy with business objectives - Lead evaluation and adoption of new technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns - Anticipate scaling challenges and proactively design solutions ahead of business growth - Lead root-cause analysis and resolution for major production incidents - Influence hiring strategy and engineering culture at a senior level **Required Qualifications** - 7-10 + years of backend engineering experience, including 3+ years operating at a Staff level or above - Demonstrated experience architecting large-scale, highly available distributed systems - Deep expertise in backend languages, frameworks, and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) - Proven track record of leading cross-functional, multi-team technical initiatives - Strong experience with cloud-native architectures, container orchestration, and infrastructure automation - Exceptional system design skills, including experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems - Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills - Experience shaping engineering strategy and influencing decisions beyond a single team **Preferred Qualifications** - Experience scaling engineering organizations through hyper-growth phases - Public speaking, technical writing, or open-source contributions demonstrating thought leadership - Experience with multi-region, globally distributed systems - Background in platform or infrastructure engineering at scale - Aviation domain experience - 10-15 years of experience in Java development with expertise in Spring Boot. - Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and ability to design scalable architectures. - Experience leading a development team or mentoring junior developers is essential.