Backend Lead XLab Job in Zurich

IT & Software Developer jobs in Switzerland

Company Size

200-500

Company Type

Product

Exp Level

Lead

Job Type

Full-Time

Language

German

Visa sponsorship

Requirements

Must:

In this role you will be responsible for leading an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building quality-based development culture. Your tasks will also include: • Proven ability to lead and grow people (coaching, feedback, accountability) in a distributed setup. • Excellent stakeholder skills: communicate clearly with senior leadership and influence decisions with facts, clarity, and persuasion. • Fluency in (Swiss) German and English (required). • Deep knowledge of Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). • Experience in building microservice-based backends using Java + Spring Boot. • Practical experience with Docker and container orchestration—preferably Kubernetes.

Nice to have:

• Experience in finance/wealth management and knowledge of financial instruments. • Experience with Elasticsearch and messaging systems. • Experience with reactive programming. • Experience building products from scratch in a regulated and security-sensitive context.

Technologies

CI/CD

JVM

Kanban

Responsibilities

In this role you will be responsible for leading an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building quality-based development culture. Your tasks will also include • Lead an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building a quality-based development culture. • Act as the main point of contact between the technical team and management: translate business needs into technical direction and vice versa. • Own the codebase, tech stack, and applications throughout the full lifecycle. • Perform backend development with Java and Spring Boot. • Design, build, automate, deploy, and maintain robust and secure client-facing wealth management applications. • Drive DevOps practices: deployment automation, CI/CD, reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence.

Description

PROFIDATA offers software solutions for investment and wealth management through its subsidiaries in major European financial centers. This offering is complemented by a rapidly growing, broad range of services in software as a service, consulting, implementation, training, and support. XLab is Profidatas innovation center based in Zürich, Switzerland. With a small and passionate team, the company is developing new cloud-native productivity tools that are good looking, fun, and easy to use. If you want to build and run a high-quality backend that makes a real impact for clients and are looking forward to leading a motivated cross-site team, then you may be the ideal candidate for the Backend Lead - 80-100% (f/m/d) position. We offer: • A great team with flat hierarchies. • An open and entrepreneurial working atmosphere that leaves room for creativity and initiative. • Greenfield development. • A modern tech stack. Become curious? APPLY NOW Profidata AG Bändliweg 30 8048 Zürich +41 44 736 47 47 jobs@profidata.com www.profidata.com

Benefits

Discounts for company or external products

Fresh fruits

Snacks & drinks

Coffee, tea

Reka Checks

Part-time possible

Company parking

Gym membership

5 weeks (25 days) vacation

Cool office

Team social events

Flexible work time

Hybrid work

Individual educational training budget

Maternity/Paternity leave

Option to buy more vacation days

International team

Quiet office

Well connected office

Home office / Remote 1 day per week

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