Java Backend Engineering Lead, Qualifyze
€85-90k
GxP auditing service
Be an early applicant
GxP auditing service
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
€85-90k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To collect actionable audit data from every supplier in the world, and centralise it within one digital platform.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience with Java stack (SpringBoot, Liquidbase, etc.)
- Proven experience leading backend initiatives across multiple teams
- Experience defining architecture and driving adoption at scale
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical direction
- Solid understanding of Java and Postgres performance, database modeling and risk analysis
- Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders
What the job involves
- We are looking for Backend engineering Lead who will be responsible for the overall backend ecosystem across the organization, combining people leadership with ownership of backend architecture, standards, and delivery quality
- This role ensures that backend development and architecture is consistent, scalable, and aligned with product, while growing backend engineers and enabling teams to deliver effectively
- The Backend Lead operates in close alignment with the Head of Engineering and Chapter Leads, ensuring all key decisions and initiatives follow the broader engineering vision
- Define and drive the backend vision across teams (architecture, design systems, tooling, standards)
- Ensure consistency in how backend applications are built and maintained
- Own cross-team backend topics
- Make and enforce key technical decisions when alignment is needed
- Lead and support backend engineers, ensuring efficient and impactful delivery of initiatives while driving team engagement, efficiency, and growth
- Raise the bar of backend engineering through running regular 1:1s and performance check-ins, coaching, and clear development support
- Identify skill gaps and drive training, and mentoring initiatives to close skill gaps, improve team capability, and continuously strengthen ways of working
- Own and drive key people processes for the team (in alignment with Tech Leadership), including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, and compensation cycles, ensuring consistency and quality of execution
- Build a strong backend community (guilds, knowledge sharing, standards)
- Own awareness of department KPIs/goals and drive recommendations for continuous improvement in team performance and execution
- Ensure backend delivery is predictable, scalable, and high quality across teams
- Identify and resolve systemic delivery or quality issues
- Support teams to avoid risky complex backend initiatives
- Align backend work with frontend/data/platform constraints and opportunities
- Act as the main escalation point for backend-related decisions
- Stay close to the codebase through selective PR reviews and architectural guidance
- Contribute to critical or high-risk backend areas when needed
- Guide teams on best practices (testing, performance, accessibility, maintainability)
Our take
Qualifyze is an online platform that provides supplier audits for the pharma industry, aiming to decrease bottlenecks by implementing curated data and insights for stakeholders and strategic decision-makers.
Based out of Frankfurt, Qualifyze was founded as a solution to the supply shortage in the pharmaceutical industry. This problem has become 20 times more prevalent between 2000 and 2018 and has led to pharmaceutical companies having to slow down research into new drugs for the treatment of serious illnesses.
Qualifyze's solution to this has turned the heads of investors and led to significant funding so far, which has been used to grow its supplier client base whilst expanding its offices across the EU.
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Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2024
$54m
SERIES B
Aug 2023
$12m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $85.9m
Company benefits
- 🎓 Mentoring and career development
- 🍼 Truly flexible schedules
- ✈️ The hotel room is your office - we allow working from another country up to 3 months a year
- 🎉 Regular company events
- 💳 Flexible compensation plan - our Edenred and become.1 cards are an open door to customisable benefits and tax savings
- 🍹 A selection of free drinks at the office
Company HQ
Bahnhofsviertel, Frankfurt, Germany
Leadership
David Schneider
(Founder & CEO)Previously consultant at McKinsey & Company and PhD at Technische Universität Darmstadt.
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