Backend Team Lead
Location
Berlin, Germany
Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full Time
Experience
8-12 years
Compensation
Compensation not disclosed
Posted
7h ago
Summary and responsibilities
Role overview
Summary
As Backend Team Lead, you will head the engineering efforts behind Smart Host's core hospitality solution. You will balance hands-on development with technical leadership, ensuring architectural scalability, guarding code quality, and managing cloud infrastructure, while fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning within your team.
At Smart Host, we’re on a mission to bridge the gap between hotels and their guests by building a cutting-edge platform that turns fragmented data into deep, actionable insights. For 2026, we’re building a hospitality ecosystem where industry-leading tech partners unite to redefine the guest experience of tomorrow.
What you'll do
Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of high-performing backend engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, transparency, and continuous learning.
Architectural Vision: Own the development of our web-app backend and its non-trivial business logic, ensuring the system is built for scale and resilience.
DevOps Ownership: Take full responsibility for your team's code and the cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes/Cloud) it runs on.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Frontend Leads and Product Designers to design efficient APIs and deliver a flawless user experience.
Fight Complexity: Lead the charge against emerging technical debt by rethinking systems from the ground up when necessary.
Strategic Growth: Assist in hiring, technical interviewing, and refining our engineering roadmap to align with business goals.
What you bring
Java Expert: You are proficient in Java (keeping pace with the latest versions) and have a deep understanding of the Spring Boot ecosystem.
Cloud Native: You have experience with Kubernetes and are familiar with modern tooling (e.g., Helm, Terraform, Gradle).
Systems Thinker: You understand the fundamentals of networking, distributed computing, and asynchronous messaging.
Root Cause Navigator: You don't shift responsibility; you dig deep into the stack to find and fix the source of a problem.
Leadership Mindset: You have experience (or a strong desire) in leading people, conducting code reviews, sharing knowledge and developing your team and its performance.
Pragmatic Engineer: You care about clean code and refactoring but understand the balance between perfection and time-to-market in a startup.
Fluency in English: You are able to communicate fluently in English, verbally as well as in written. German skills are an advantage.
Entitlement to work in Germany: You are legally entitled to work freely within the European Union and you do not require a visa sponsorship.
Why Smart Host
A role with an impact: Your voice is heard! We want your ideas and give them space to unfold!
Hybrid work or Remote: Your Work-Life-Balance matters! Our Hybrid work model gives you time to focus on your tasks and still manage your personal life. We also welcoming applicants based in Europe, entitled to work freely within the European union, willing to travel occasionally to our Berlin office.
Team Culture: We are super proud of our diverse and multi-cultural team, that includes also our hairy pet colleagues in the office.
Smart Host Days - Team Travel: Yep. Correct, we take the entire team to a yearly team trip abroad. Despite high impactful trainings, we want our team to live our mission - make vacation smart!
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8-12 years
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Permanent
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Company
Smart Host
Team size
Growing team
Location
Berlin, Germany
Smart Host is a B2B SaaS company building a cutting-edge platform that turns fragmented data into deep, actionable insights for hotels. They are creating a hospitality ecosystem with industry-leading tech partners to redefine the guest experience of tomorrow.
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Backend Team Lead
Berlin, Germany • Full Time