Lead Backend Engineer - Cloud Solutions

About the Role

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Lead Backend Engineer to join our team. This Lead Backend Engineer remote position is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems that power our products and services. In this role, you will translate business and product requirements into robust technical solutions, ensuring high performance, reliability, and security across backend services.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and operate cloud-native AI/ML services that are secure, reliable, and cost-efficient ensuring that they meet the business objectives and adhere to service level agreements (SLA).
• Deploy and maintain AI applications on cloud architecture.
• Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) stacks: embeddings, vector stores, chunking, and evaluation.
• Create MLOps foundations: experiment tracking, model registry, CI/CD for data & models, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Investigate new techniques, tools, and methods that might increase efficiency among engineering & technology and cloud teams, as well as leading execution processes of topics evaluated & planned for roll-out.
• Collaborate with other technical leaders and business stakeholders to align all constraints and come up with solutions regarding project/product/initiative outputs.
• Be accountable for the reliability and security of cloud infrastructure and services.
• Drive continuous improvement, continuous delivery, and lean practices within the cloud team.

Requirements

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject.
• Proven hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong experience in Java development.
• Strong experience with Spring Framework, preferably Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing enterprise-grade backend applications.
• Solid understanding of microservice architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with event-driven architecture and asynchronous integration patterns.
• Strong knowledge of scalable, resilient and high-availability system design.

Nice to Have

• Experience with containerized environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability tools in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and modern backend infrastructure.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary, private health insurance, pension and retirement plans through a company-backed pension system, meal card, commute compensation, work-from-home support, and a paid birthday off.
• Flexible working hours, including a remote working option.
• Access to leading online e-learning platforms like Udemy and various libraries.
• Social activities including happy hours, workshops, and community events.
• Open culture with a flat organizational structure that values direct communication.