Deine Aufgaben As a Chapter Lead Backend Development, you will play a crucial role in guiding our backend engineering team and shaping our technical strategy. You will be a part of our JobShop Experience Team, where you will focus on building the services that power both our Recruiter Home product and the JobShop pages used daily by candidates throughout Germany and beyond. This hybrid role balances hands-on engineering with strategic chapter management, and we are looking for you to: Lead and evolve backend technical strategy across our engineering squads Facilitate collaboration between the Tech Board and the backend engineering chapter Mentor backend engineers, fostering an inclusive and supportive learning environment Conduct technical interviews and optimize squad allocations Drive improvements by addressing addressing technical debt and communicating improvements in business terms Actively contribute to development work within a delivery squad Make critical architectural decisions, including frameworks, JDK selection, and data structures Dein Profil While we value different skills and experiences, our backend people have a lot in common. We’ll expect you to be: A collaborative leader with a track record of mentorship and empowering engineers An experienced backend engineer with expertise in Java, Kotlin, PHP, or similar technologies A strategic thinker with a strong understanding of microservices and experience transitioning from monolithic architectures. A knowledge-sharing advocate who fosters continuous improvement A clear communicator in English (German skills are a huge plus, but not required). Comfortable working remotely in a diverse, international environment Tech Stack: Our backend runs on Java, Kotlin, and/or PHP, with cloud infrastructure in AWS. All our engineers embrace new technologies and encourage innovation–check out our Tech Radar to see what we’re currently exploring.