Java Backend Engineering Lead

Founded in 2019, Qualifyze is a leading company in supply chain compliance management in the Life Sciences industry, trusted by over 1,500 pharmaceutical and healthcare companies globally. Our digital suite of solutions connects manufacturers, suppliers, and a global network of more than 250 auditors and quality experts.

With a track record of over 4,500 audits across 85+ countries and the largest and most accurate supplier network and data analytics tools, Qualifyze stands as the all-in-one partner for quality compliance and supply chain risk mitigation in the Life Sciences sector.

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).

• 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.

💰 Salary 

At Qualifyze, our salary ranges are transparent internally, and we aim to follow a similar approach externally. For this role, we’re happy to share a reference point within the band: the expected salary range is around 85.000€ - 90.000€. Final compensation will depend on experience and performance during the process, with some flexibility within the range.