Backend Technical Lead

📋 Description

• Lead the backend team technically: guide, mentor, and foster the growth of developers, serving as a technical reference and a point for resolving blockers.

• Define and evolve the backend architecture of the product, making informed technical decisions aligned with business objectives.

• Design and implement high-quality services and REST APIs, ensuring their proper integration with web interfaces and other ecosystem services.

• Establish and uphold the team's development standards: best practices, code reviews, testing strategies, and technical documentation.

• Ensure the security, performance, scalability, and resilience of services in production.

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and other technical leaders in planning, refinement, and prioritization of technical initiatives.

• Manage the technical debt of the backend area: identify, quantify, and propose concrete action plans.

• Participate in technical selection processes: defining tests, conducting interviews, and evaluating candidates for the team.

• Ensure the operational continuity of the team: documentation, runbooks, incident management, and post-mortem analysis.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in backend development, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership role.

• Advanced proficiency in Node.js, NestJS, and TypeScript, applying SOLID principles, OOP, and design patterns in scalable architectures.

• Solid experience in designing and evolving REST and GraphQL APIs: versioning, governance, documentation (Swagger/OpenAPI), and error management.

• Advanced knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, query optimization, modeling, indexing, and the use of ORMs/ODMs (TypeORM, Prisma, Mongoose).

• Proficiency in Git and collaborative methodologies: Gitflow, trunk-based development, code review, and establishing development standards.

• Ability to enhance code quality through best practices, style guides, review policies, and a culture of clean code.

• Experience working and leading teams in agile environments (Scrum/Kanban), collaborating closely with product and business.

🏝️ Benefits

• Permanent contract and stability from day one: we want you to feel like a long-term part of the team, without surprises.

• Innovative projects with modern technology: we’re not here to reinvent the wheel, but to learn every day and maximize all your skills.

• Continuous training and professional development: we invest in your growth with a flexible budget for courses, certifications, English classes, and everything you need to enhance your talent.

• Communities and shared knowledge: Our Technical Office is a space for growth, learning, sharing experiences, and feeling part of something bigger.

• Established technical team: a space where everyone contributes and grows in an authentic and positive environment. Our leaders are great professionals and technical references who are always there to support and guide.

• Vacation that grows with you: 23 working days per year, plus 1 additional day for every 2 years of service! (up to 30 days).

• Compensation for remote work: €562.50/year to set up your home office as you like.

• Flexible compensation: Choose the benefits that suit you best! Training, meals, transport, childcare… and more.

• All necessary equipment at your disposal: PC, chair, monitor, keyboard, mouse, footrest… We want you to work comfortably, wherever you are.

• Library of books and games in the Granada office: We have shelves filled with culture and entertainment. You can take anything you want home.

• WellHub: Access to a wide range of sports activities at reduced prices. You choose the fee, we provide the access.

• Discounts for being part of the team: Thanks to IBenefits, you can access hundreds of offers and discounts on leisure, health, fashion, sports, and more.

• We support hobbies that bring people together: If you share an interest with your colleagues, we provide financial support for you to enjoy it together.

• We genuinely care for people: Because behind every position there is a story, a life, and many moments that deserve to be supported. We like to be present on special days and also in everyday achievements, with small gestures that convey a lot.