Lead Backend Engineer - Consumer Growth

Remote: yes Posted: 2026-07-15

As our Lead Backend Engineer - Consumer Growth, you'll play a critical role in shaping the technical direction of the Consumer Growth team, taking ownership of the technical quality and delivery of complex systems.

Here's what that looks like in practice:

- Build and ship - Design, implement, and operate services that power the Satispay consumer experience - from payment flows and identity verification to loyalty and engagement features, working across the full lifecycle from API design to production rollouts.

- Cross-team technical leadership - Drive technical analysis for projects that cut across multiple teams, lead design discussions, and produce clear documentation for stakeholders and engineering teams.

- Foster engineering excellence - Raise the quality bar across mobile and backend development through rigorous testing strategies, safe progressive rollouts, and proactive elimination of technical debt in a codebase shipping 2M+ daily payments.

- Mentor and develop - Provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers in the Consumer Growth teams, helping them navigate cross-service dependencies, adopt sound event-driven patterns, and build operational excellence.

Expect challenges, collaboration, and the freedom to bring your ideas to life. Our tech stack includes (but it’s not limited to) PostgreSQL, Java, Spring Boot. We rely on AWS for our infrastructure, with microservices deployed on EC2/ECS, S3 for storage, AWS Lambda for serverless functions, and Kinesis and ElasticSearch for log streaming. You'll take ownership of your work from start to finish.

Who we’re looking for

This role needs someone who is a proven problem-solver, takes initiative, excels in cross-team collaboration, and is a technical quality champion.

- Extensive experience - At least 5 years of related experience in back-end software engineering, with a proven track record in microservices and cloud environments (AWS is a plus) in high-paced, mission-critical contexts.

- Technical depth - Deep experience with Java and Spring Boot, alongside a strong understanding of distributed systems and managing external dependencies effectively.

- Structured communication - Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and convincingly, coordinate implementations across teams, and build trust with stakeholders.