Backend Lead

Poste a pourvoir : Backend Lead -- Zürich -- Profidata AG.

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 the areas of software as a service, consulting, implementation, training and support. XLab is Profidata’s innovation center based in Zürich, Switzerland. With a small and passionate team, we are developing new cloud-native productivity tools that are good looking as well as 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 we are looking for you.
Your responsibilities
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
•
Act as the
main point of contact
between the technical team and management: translate business needs into technical direction and vice versa.
•
Own the
codebase, tech stack and applications
throughout the full lifecycle.
•
Backend development
with
Java
and
Spring,Boot
.
•
Design, build, automate, deploy and maintain
robust and secure
client-facing wealth management applications.
•
Drive
DevOps practices
: deployment automation, CI/CD, reliability, monitoring, operational excellence.
Your Skills (Must-have)
To be successful in this role you offer a strong quality-oriented mindset paired with a deep understanding of “why this matters” for the end user. Moreover, you bring:
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Proven ability to
lead and grow people
(coaching, feedback, accountability) in a distributed setup.
•
Excellent stakeholder skills: you can communicate clearly with senior leadership and influence decisions with facts, clarity, and persuasion.
•
Fluency in (Swiss) German and English (required).
•
Deep knowledge of
Java
and the
Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
.
•
Experience in building
microservice-based backends
using
Java + Spring Boot
.
•
Practical experience with
Docker
and container orchestration—preferably
Kubernetes
.
Nice to Have
•
Experience in
finance / wealth management
and knowledge of financial instruments.
•
Experience with
Elasticsearch
and messaging systems.
•
Experience with
reactive programming
.
•
Experience building products from scratch in a regulated and security-sensitive context.
We offer
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A great team with flat hierarchies.
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An open and entrepreneurial working atmosphere that leaves room for creativity and initiative.
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Greenfield development.
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A modern tech stack.

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