Lead Principal Backend Engineer

As Lead Principal Software Engineer, you play an active role in defining and driving our technical vision. You take the product to the next level, improve related processes, and empower teams and other Software Engineers. Ensuring our solutions are tested, accessible, extensible, maintainable, secure, and high-performing, you drive the completion of deliverables. You are the go-to person for all Backbase departments thanks to your functional expertise. You act as a role model and mentor for other Software Engineers, providing guidance in their development. Staying up-to-date with industry trends, competitor analysis, and team compositions, you ensure we are well-prepared and dynamic.

What you'll do

• Help the organisation define and ensure the technical vision is known and implemented in development activities.
• Drive prototyping and validation of new architecture and technology ideas, ways of working, efficiency gains, and refactoring initiatives.
• Foster collaboration across departments and represent our product vision and success internally and externally.
• Interact with teams from pre-sales and customer success to ensure technology feedback from customers and field engineers is incorporated into the product.
• Provide advice based on experience and deep technical understanding of software development, practices, and frameworks.
• Lead by example, define our way of working and our path to success, and take on the expert role in all topics related to Backend.

Who you are

• Minimum 12 years of experience in a similar role.
• Bachelor in Information Technology, Computer Sciences, or similar/related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with leading large teams and coaching team leads both technically and in leadership.
• Excellent English speaking, writing, and presentation skills.
• Meets all technical expectations of previous levels, working across their chapter, the guild, and the organization.
• Able to make the right judgement on what to focus on and what to delegate.
• Has expertise in a set of related team's domains, including the breadth of services, how they interact, and data flows between systems.
• Conducts test analysis and takes a proactive role in the formulation of quality considerations that apply to strategic product and architectural decisions.
• Contributes to the testing frameworks for the organisation and mentors less senior engineers on test automation.
• Spends less time coding or on other sprint tasks, more time on design, planning, and architecture.
• Defines and implements the organisation strategy and vision.
• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within a set of related domains.
• Has a helicopter view of the product and influences the definition of the testing approach and strategy of the teams in their product line and in the wider organisation.
• Writes automated test cases in different testing levels for the whole system under test.
• Acts as a bridge between their value stream and external groups (guilds, RnD, CS, customers).
• Works with the security team and across several teams to apply the organization's security strategy.
• Fosters a security-first mindset across those teams, leading by example.
• Fosters a culture of observability across several teams and helps them use operational data to improve stability, performance, and accessibility of their domains.
• Works across teams to foster a culture of architecture that allows for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling.
• Guides several teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.
• Works across departments and interacts with teams from pre-sales and customer success to ensure technology feedback from customers and field engineers is incorporated into the product.
• Establishes strong and trusted relationships with customers, internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensures a unified adoption of existing tooling and processes across departments.
• Aligns with stakeholders to ensure dependencies are met and there is sufficient reuse of processes and tooling across the organization.
• Reviews cross-team work critically and ensures it’s appropriately broken down and prioritised, and well understood by all involved teams.
• Ensures cross-team dependencies are noted and well understood by all teams involved and other relevant stakeholders.
• Fosters a culture of priority setting and urgency in alignment with organizational strategy.
• Takes overall responsibility and accountability for the quality of their product line.

Our Perks

Loud and busy sometimes but always friendly, helpful, and super fun. We love to celebrate each other’s achievements, share jokes, and our love for food, movies, traveling, and sports. We’re one big and diverse family working towards the same goal.