- Define the technical vision for our backend architecture and set clear priorities in close collaboration with product and engineering stakeholders.
- Take technical and functional leadership of one or more backend teams, acting as mentor, coach, and sparring partner.
- Ensure robust, maintainable, and high-performance services that operate reliably under production load in a microservices or modular domain architecture.
- Support the team in selecting, introducing, and continuously improving backend technologies, CI/CD pipelines, observability solutions, and testing strategies.
- Work closely with frontend, mobile, DevOps, and product teams to deliver end-to-end solutions that create real value for our customers.
Lead Backend Engineer (m/f/d)
Berlin
Full-time
Permanent employee
Your mission
As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will play a key role in evolving our core backend platform. You will shape the technical roadmap, take ownership of architectural decisions, and lead a growing team of backend engineers. Together, we will elevate performance, scalability, and developer productivity to the next level.
Your profile
- Several years of experience as a backend engineer with strong expertise in relevant programming languages and technologies (e.g. Java, Kotlin, or comparable stacks).
- Proven experience in technically leading and mentoring software engineering teams.
- Deep understanding of scalable microservices architectures, messaging patterns, databases (SQL/NoSQL), and cloud platforms.
- Hands-on experience owning and documenting architectural decisions in complex systems.
- An agile mindset, high quality standards, and a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
- Strong communication skills in English and/or German is a plus.
WE OFFER
- A modern work environment in an established, fast-growing FinTech company.
- Hybrid work model with flexibility between our Berlin office and remote work.
- Competitive compensation and performance-based bonuses.
- Training budgets, access to tech conferences, and ample room for professional and personal growth.
- A strong, collaborative team culture with open and transparent feedback.
- Modern technical infrastructure and tools that enable you to work efficiently and effectively.
About us
Among other things, the Smartbroker Group operates Smartbroker+ - a multi-award-winning online broker that is the only provider in Germany to combine the extensive product range of traditional brokers with the extremely favourable conditions of neobrokers. The portfolio also includes the digital fund broker SMARTBROKER Finance (formerly: FondsDISCOUNT.de), while the Group also operates four high-reach stock market portals (wallstreet-online.de, boersenNews.de, FinanzNachrichten.de and ARIVA.de). With several hundred million monthly page impressions, the Group is the largest independent financial portal operator in the German-speaking world and also maintains the largest financial community.
The company is one of the pioneers of digital investment. For more than 25 years, we have been committed to breaking down the barriers to investing and enabling user-friendly and cost-effective investment processing.
Our employees are the key to this success. Due to our strong growth momentum, we have created numerous attractive jobs in recent years. Every day, we strive to build the best team and give our employees the space to develop themselves in the best possible way. A diverse team of top performers ensures that we all learn something new every day. From a small team of around 20 people, we have now grown into a company with around 260 employees (as of 31 December 2023), based in a modern office in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
We see ourselves as an innovative fintech that is embedded in a successful group of companies and thus combines a personal working atmosphere with the advantages of a financially strong public limited company. We rely on flat hierarchies, individual development and agile processes in all parts of the company. We are proud of the personal cohesion within the team and the above-average length of service of many employees. We are committed to diversity and equal opportunities. We strive to build a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work and our team will be.
If you want to be part of this fast-growing organisation, apply now to join the Smartbroker Group.
We encourage women, non-binary and transgender people as well as all members of the LGBTQI+ community, people from marginalised ethnic backgrounds and people with visible or non-visible disabilities to apply if they are looking for an inclusive, diverse and safe working environment.
The company is one of the pioneers of digital investment. For more than 25 years, we have been committed to breaking down the barriers to investing and enabling user-friendly and cost-effective investment processing.
Our employees are the key to this success. Due to our strong growth momentum, we have created numerous attractive jobs in recent years. Every day, we strive to build the best team and give our employees the space to develop themselves in the best possible way. A diverse team of top performers ensures that we all learn something new every day. From a small team of around 20 people, we have now grown into a company with around 260 employees (as of 31 December 2023), based in a modern office in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
We see ourselves as an innovative fintech that is embedded in a successful group of companies and thus combines a personal working atmosphere with the advantages of a financially strong public limited company. We rely on flat hierarchies, individual development and agile processes in all parts of the company. We are proud of the personal cohesion within the team and the above-average length of service of many employees. We are committed to diversity and equal opportunities. We strive to build a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work and our team will be.
If you want to be part of this fast-growing organisation, apply now to join the Smartbroker Group.
We encourage women, non-binary and transgender people as well as all members of the LGBTQI+ community, people from marginalised ethnic backgrounds and people with visible or non-visible disabilities to apply if they are looking for an inclusive, diverse and safe working environment.