Lead Back End Engineer

In this role you lead backend engineering across multiple teams to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable services. You own architectural decisions, set standards, and drive technical leadership for a software platform within a regulated environment. You will partner with senior leadership to align backend strategy with business goals, improve reliability and delivery speed, and mentor engineers to grow backend capabilities. This is an opportunity to shape the technical foundation of large-scale systems while advancing a collaborative, quality-driven engineering culture.

• Define and evolve backend architecture for scalability, maintainability, and performance
• Set coding standards and champion secure development practices
• Influence technology choices, frameworks, and tooling policy
• Lead improvements to CI/CD pipelines, build processes, and operational workflows
• Communicate technical risks clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Lead projects with a focus on strong systems design and engineering outcomes
• Contribute to critical backend systems when required
• Review and refine key codebases to ensure alignment with architectural goals
• Provide technical oversight for major initiatives
• Coach and develop engineers, strengthening backend capability across the organisation
• Facilitate design discussions, code reviews, and technical problem-solving sessions
• Build consensus on technical decisions across teams
• Identify and address technical debt
• Introduce new backend technologies and engineering practices
• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and delivery speed
• Stay up to date with backend technology trends
• Share knowledge through internal workshops, presentations, and forums
• Support recruitment and promote a strong engineering culture
• Ensure backend systems align with recognised security and compliance standards

• Strong experience building backend systems using Java (Java 11+) and Spring Boot
• Proven ability to design and lead backend architecture for complex platforms
• Strong experience with AWS
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerised environments
• Knowledge of Kafka and event-driven architectures
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and microservice architectures
• Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable working in Agile teams using Git-based source control and tooling
• Knowledge of recognised security and compliance frameworks
• A natural technical leader who enjoys mentoring and influencing others

• mentoring and coaching
• strong communication
• leadership and influence
• Java (11+)
• Spring Boot
• AWS