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Key responsibilities

• Set the technical direction: shape the long-term backend architecture and standards across multiple squads. Make key design decisions on scalability, resilience, and system boundaries, ensuring our platform evolves with clarity and consistency
• Microservices: guide the evolution of our microservices architecture, ensuring best practices in modularity, resilience, observability, and maintainability are applied across teams
• Represent engineering: be the go-to voice for engineering matters in cross-functional forums. Communicate trade-offs, rationale, and technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Guide teams, don’t just manage them: provide day-to-day technical leadership to 2–3 backend squads. Help make sound technical choices, remove blockers, and ensure delivery aligns with engineering quality, timelines, and product priorities
• Raise the engineering bar: drive consistent engineering practices across squads: testing, documentation, observability, performance tuning, and incident response
• Security: ensure squads implement best practices for securing data, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations
• Mentorship & team growth: mentor engineers to grow into stronger technical and people leaders. Help shape career paths, cross-team learning, and ensure we retain and attract top talent

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in engineering, with a strong understanding of modern microservice-oriented architecture
• Proven technical leadership experience, guiding multiple engineering teams in designing, building and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Solid understanding of cloud-native environments, particularly AWS and Kubernetes (K8s), including observability, deployment, and cost optimisation
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable engaging with engineers, product managers, and non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for mentoring and growing teams, creating an environment that balances technical excellence with fast, pragmatic delivery

Technologies

• Back-end: Java 21, Spring Boot, REST, Postgres/Jooq/Flyway, JUnit/TestContainers/Mockito, AWS (EC2, RDS, Cognito, S3, KMS), Containerization (Docker / kubernetes)
• Front-end: TypeScript, React, and Tailwind CSS

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