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Salary analysis
Compared with the selected benchmark ("Market Average: Senior Level"), this listing's salary midpoint is about 96% lower. The offer sits below the benchmark range (€10,402–€16,776). The offer's range width is broadly in line with the benchmark. This benchmark is based on 1 comparable listings.
| Market | Lower bound (25th percentile) | Median | Upper bound (75th percentile) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market Average: Backend Engineer | €3,600/per month | €6,511/per month | €15,826/per month |
| Pay in our data — not quoted in ad (Senior) | €455/per month | €571/per month | €687/per month |
Lead the architecture, design, and development of complex distributed systems at scale. Own the technical direction, delivery, and evolution of critical systems and platforms. Drive system design, API standards, software architecture, and engineering best practices across teams. Lead complex technical initiatives involving multiple services, teams, and stakeholders. Make key technical decisions, balancing business priorities with scalability, reliability, and maintainability goals. Remain an active contributor to production systems through regular coding, code reviews, system design, and technical problem-solving, balancing hands-on execution with leadership responsibilities. Mentor and coach engineers, helping raise technical capability, code quality, and engineering standards. Drive continuous improvements in development processes, engineering effectiveness, and agile ways of working. Align stakeholders and drive execution across cross-functional teams. Lead production stability, incident management, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements. Proactively identify opportunities to improve products, platforms, developer productivity, and customer experience.
Job Details
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and development of complex distributed systems at scale.
- Own the technical direction, delivery, and evolution of critical systems and platforms.
- Drive system design, API standards, software architecture, and engineering best practices across teams.
- Lead complex technical initiatives involving multiple services, teams, and stakeholders.
- Make key technical decisions, balancing business priorities with scalability, reliability, and maintainability goals.
- Remain an active contributor to production systems through regular coding, code reviews, system design, and technical problem-solving, balancing hands-on execution with leadership responsibilities.
- Mentor and coach engineers, helping raise technical capability, code quality, and engineering standards.
- Drive continuous improvements in development processes, engineering effectiveness, and agile ways of working.
- Align stakeholders and drive execution across cross-functional teams.
- Lead production stability, incident management, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve products, platforms, developer productivity, and customer experience
Requirements
- 11+ Years experience building and operating large-scale backend systems in production environments.
- Proven experience delivering complex distributed systems at scale.
- Strong expertise in Java, Scala, Kotlin, or Go.
- Strong software architecture skills with a track record of driving architectural decisions within and across teams.
- Proven experience leading technical initiatives, projects, or engineering teams with end-to-end ownership.
- Recent and ongoing hands-on coding experience in production environments is required.
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