- *Scania** is transforming from a leading supplier of trucks, buses, and engines to a provider of complete and sustainable transport solutions. Together with TRATON and our sister brands, MAN, Volkswagen Truck \& Bus, and International, we are working to shape the future of mobility with innovative, environmentally conscious solutions.
Our values – customer first, respect, team spirit, responsibility, and elimination of waste – are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we are at the forefront of creating a sustainable future.
As a **Lead Backend Developer**, you will combine deep backend engineering expertise with technical leadership and delivery ownership across the full software development lifecycle. While playing a key role in re\-establishing a strong, professional software engineering culture within the team, combining deep backend expertise with the ability to guide teams toward higher engineering maturity, accountability, and ownership.
#### **Roles and Responsibilities:**
- Own and drive backend architecture for scalable, secure, and maintainable microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
- Lead technical and architectural decisions across Spring Boot applications, AWS services, Lambda functions, and integrations, collaborating with architects and developers to deliver robust end\-to\-end solutions.
- Define and enforce engineering standards, including coding practices, code reviews, testing strategies, and quality gates, while driving continuous improvements in engineering and QA processes.
- Collaborate with frontend developers and product stakeholders to define clear API contracts and ensure seamless system integrations.
- Coordinate technical delivery across backend, frontend, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to ensure the successful execution of complex initiatives.
- Support backlog refinement, technical analysis, estimation, and solution decomposition, ensuring clarity of requirements and implementation approaches.
- Ensure scope, quality, and timely delivery of features and projects while proactively identifying and mitigating technical risks.
- Drive improvements in system reliability, observability, scalability, and performance through effective logging, monitoring, tracing, and performance optimisation practices.
- Lead the investigation and resolution of complex production issues, driving root\-cause analysis and preventive actions.
- Contribute to and enhance CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, release processes, and deployment readiness to support reliable and scalable software delivery.
#### **Key Requirements:**
- **8\+ years of backend development experience,** with deep expertise in **Java and Spring Boot.**
- Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives, including architecture definition and engineering best practices.
- Ability to balance hands\-on development with leadership responsibilities.
- Strong experience designing **distributed systems and microservices architectures.**
- Hands\-on experience with **AWS services,** including **ECS Fargate, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, and KMS.**
- Solid understanding of **RESTful APIs,** event\-driven architectures **(Kafka, SQS)**, and integration patterns.
- Experience with relational **(PostgreSQL, RDS)** and **NoSQL (DynamoDB)** databases, including performance tuning.
- Experience in **Unit testing is a must**, and TDD experience is highly valued.
- Knowledge of **Hibernate** and **JPA** internals.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, though not required for this specific role.
- Experience working in agile environments (Scrum/SAFe) with strong English communication skills.
#### **Special Requirements for the Role:**
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Experience acting as a technical lead in complex, multi\-team organisational environments.
- Outspoken and communicative, comfortable facilitating technical discussions and encouraging participation from all engineers.
- Ability to work cross\-functionally with business stakeholders, architects, developers, QA, and DevOps teams.
- Experience managing scalability concerns such as load balancing and availability zones.
#### **Stable and Growing**
- *The Scalers** is a leader in its industry, with multiple offices across Europe and Asia.
Working for The Scalers offers you a stable and rewarding career. Our international team in Bengaluru (Indian, French, American) and our Chief Happiness Officer will ensure we have a tremendous experience together!
#### **Neat Perks**
- Comprehensive **health insurance**
- A MacBook Pro or Lenovo T490
- **Business Trips** worldwide
- **Flexible timings**
- **Fun activities** round the year
- Training \& development
Freshly roasted coffee* ️
#### **Enhance Your Skills**
At The Scalers we use the latest technologies and will always welcome your ideas to make our product better.
Our **training and development programs** make sure you always stay ahead of the curve and enhance your profile!