Backend Lead

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:

•

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.

•

Greenfield development.

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A modern tech stack.