A Backend Technical Lead is a software engineer responsible for guiding the backend community and aligning the technical direction. Providing a strong technical direction involves establishing a technical vision, resolving technical disagreements, ensuring the usage of appropriate engineering practices (such as CD or automated testing) and investing in continual improvements to tooling or technical debt to ensure the platform meets changing needs and requirements. With a strong collaboration within the backend community, this role steers towards a common technical vision and is accountable for the quality of the technical deliverables of the respective team. This role has a strong focus on the technical aspects, or the «How». - Take ownership of the backend technology stack and be a key contributor to the technical roadmap process - Drive technical innovation, to grow scalability, security, and performance optimisations - Take responsibility and lead larger technical projects that involve other communities like frontend, cloud or QA - Cultivate technical excellence in the team by promoting best practices, being a mentor, observing the code quality and designing sound and reusable backend architectures - Solve complex technical challenges to ensure the robustness and performance of the platform while building elegant and future-proof solutions - Represent and guide the Backend Community to foster communication, collaboration, and efficient decision-making processes - Contribute to the product roadmap by owning the aspects of sound architecture and the technical approach