We're hiring a Lead Developer to lead the technical delivery of our Core Services — the shared backend (APIs, event-driven services, SDKs) that powers every Roojai application and entity.
- You will report to the Group Solution Architect, lead a squad of backend engineers, work hands-on with modern cloud-native technologies, and play a key role in scaling our platform.
Responsibilities
Architecture and platform evolution
- Work closely with the Solution Architect on system design and platform evolution
- Contribute to architecture decisions, design patterns, and standards
- Ensure API contract quality, versioning, and backward compatibility
- Support the adoption of event-driven architecture and scalable system design
Development and delivery activities
- Design and implement scalable, resilient, and efficient backend solutions
- Translate architectural direction into concrete designs and implementation plans
- Own the technical delivery of the Core platform sprint by sprint
- Help with the work assignment during sprint planning
- Help remove bottlenecks and manage technical dependencies
- Provide technical guidance to developers and promote teamwork
- Participate actively in coding activities (APIs, event-driven services, integrations, SDKs)
- Oversee system deployment activities and release readiness
- Ensure that technical documentation is adequate and up to date
Production support and maintenance
- Ensure that platform components run reliably in production
- Ensure that issues and exceptions are monitored and addressed promptly
- Ensure that Service Desk support is adequate and SLAs are met
Compliance and quality excellence
- Establish coding principles and best practices and ensure that developers adhere to them
- Perform regular code reviews and provide feedback
- Monitor and follow up on platform performance and third-party tools
- Optimize code and improve system performance when required
- Ensure compliance with IS27001 and security best practices
Lead the Core squad
- Mentor developers and support their progression
- Appraise team members
- Manage leave requests
- Recruit new developers and manage the on-boarding process
- Encourage regular trainings and identify relevant learning opportunities
- Architecture and platform evolution
- Work closely with the Solution Architect on system design and platform evolution
- Contribute to architecture decisions, design patterns, and standards
- Ensure API contract quality, versioning, and backward compatibility
- Support the adoption of event-driven architecture and scalable system design
- Development and delivery activities
- Design and implement scalable, resilient, and efficient backend solutions
- Translate architectural direction into concrete designs and implementation plans
- Own the technical delivery of the Core platform sprint by sprint
- Help with the work assignment during sprint planning
- Help remove bottlenecks and manage technical dependencies
- Provide technical guidance to developers and promote teamwork
- Participate actively in coding activities (APIs, event-driven services, integrations, SDKs)
- Oversee system deployment activities and release readiness
- Ensure that technical documentation is adequate and up to date
- Production support and maintenance
- Ensure that platform components run reliably in production
- Ensure that issues and exceptions are monitored and addressed promptly
- Ensure that Service Desk support is adequate and SLAs are met
- Compliance and quality excellence
- Establish coding principles and best practices and ensure that developers adhere to them
- Perform regular code reviews and provide feedback
- Monitor and follow up on platform performance and third-party tools
- Optimize code and improve system performance when required
- Ensure compliance with IS27001 and security best practices
- Lead the Core squad
- Mentor developers and support their progression
- Appraise team members
- Manage leave requests
- Recruit new developers and manage the on-boarding process
- Encourage regular trainings and identify relevant learning opportunities
Requirements
- 10 years of backend software development experience, with 5 years leading a team
- Strong skills in Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, REST API design, and SQL
- Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka / Confluent)
- Solid cloud-native experience (AWS and/or Azure, containers, CI/CD)
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Docker/Kubernetes, and observability tools
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Pragmatic and self-driven mindset
- Fluent in English
- Architect mindset — understanding of scalability, maintainability, and system design
- Insurance or fintech background is a plus
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