Backend Lead XLab
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Job description
- In this role you will be responsible for leading an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building quality-based development culture.
- Your tasks will also include
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- Lead an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building a quality-based development culture.
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- Act as the main point of contact between the technical team and management: translate business needs into technical direction and vice versa.
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- Own the codebase, tech stack, and applications throughout the full lifecycle.
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- Perform backend development with Java and Spring Boot.
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- Design, build, automate, deploy, and maintain robust and secure client-facing wealth management applications.
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- Drive DevOps practices: deployment automation, CI/CD, reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
Technologies:
- Backend
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Docker
- ElasticSearch
- Support
- JVM
- Java
- Kanban
- Kubernetes
- Security
- Spring
- Spring Boot
More:
PROFIDATA offers software solutions for investment and wealth management through its subsidiaries in major European financial centers. This offering is complemented by a rapidly growing, broad range of services in software as a service, consulting, implementation, training, and support. XLab is Profidatas innovation center based in Zürich, Switzerland. With a small and passionate team, the company is developing new cloud-native productivity tools that are good looking, fun, and easy to use. If you want to build and run a high-quality backend that makes a real impact for clients and are looking forward to leading a motivated cross-site team, then you may be the ideal candidate for the Backend Lead - 80-100% (f/m/d) position.
We offer:
- A great team with flat hierarchies.
- An open and entrepreneurial working atmosphere that leaves room for creativity and initiative.
- Greenfield development.
- A modern tech stack.
Requirements
- In this role you will be responsible for leading an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building quality-based development culture.
- Your tasks will also include:
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- Proven ability to lead and grow people (coaching, feedback, accountability) in a distributed setup.
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- Excellent stakeholder skills: communicate clearly with senior leadership and influence decisions with facts, clarity, and persuasion.
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- Fluency in (Swiss) German and English (required).
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- Deep knowledge of Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
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- Experience in building microservice-based backends using Java + Spring Boot.
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- Practical experience with Docker and container orchestration-preferably Kubernetes.