Backend Tech Lead (m/f/d)

As our Backend Tech Lead, you will help shape the technical direction of our SaaS backend and enable the team to build reliable, scalable, secure, and maintainable services.

You will combine hands-on software engineering with architectural leadership, technical mentoring, and close collaboration across Engineering, Product, and customer-facing teams.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of serverless backend services on AWS.
• Define and communicate the technical direction, architectural principles, and engineering standards for backend systems.
• Make pragmatic architecture decisions that balance scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and delivery speed.
• Support the evolution of a secure, multi-tenant infrastructure for collecting and analyzing customer data.
• Take ownership of applications throughout their lifecycle—from customer discovery and technical design to deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor backend engineers through feedback, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance.
• Encourage autonomy, constructive challenge, and healthy technical debate within the team.
• Collaborate closely with embedded, mobile, frontend, QA, Product, and customer-facing teams.
• Participate in agile and design-thinking processes, including direct interaction with stakeholders and customers.

At ProGlove, we believe that technical expertise is important, but it is the combination of skills, mindset, and behaviors that enables people to make a real impact. Our qualifications serve as guidance, and we welcome candidates who bring relevant experience, a fresh perspective, and the drive to grow with us.

You bring:

• Strong experience in backend software engineering, including responsibility for the technical design and delivery of backend services or products.
• Experience providing technical leadership, architectural guidance, or mentoring to other engineers.
• Practical experience designing, building, and operating serverless infrastructure on AWS or another major cloud provider.
• A strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, databases, security principles, and multi-tenant architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, AWS CodeBuild, or comparable solutions.
• Experience with infrastructure as code using tools such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or AWS CDK.
• A track record of making and clearly explaining technical decisions in a collaborative environment.
• An ownership mindset and an interest in supporting applications throughout their entire lifecycle.
• The ability to coach and support engineers while encouraging autonomy and constructive technical discussion.
• Pragmatic judgment when selecting technologies and balancing long-term quality with delivery needs.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Excellent English communication skills.

At ProGlove, you will join an international company building wearable and software solutions that help frontline workers in logistics, manufacturing, retail and automotive work safer, faster and smarter.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape how we attract, assess and hire talent across the organization, while contributing to broader People initiatives as the company’s needs evolve.

We offer:

• A hybrid working model based in our Belgrade office, with three on-site days per week.
• 28 days of paid vacation per year, in addition to all Serbian public holidays.
• Dedicated learning and development time within working hours.
• Private health insurance and a fitness membership.
• A choice of IT equipment from ProGlove’s supported device list.
• Regular team and office events.
• Collaboration with colleagues and hiring teams across Belgrade, Munich, Chicago and Coventry.
• The opportunity to take real ownership, improve existing processes and have a visible impact on how ProGlove grows its teams.
• Health Program: Our global ProHealth Program prioritizes the physical and mental well-being of all our team members - you will have private health insurance, and fitness membership  

In this role, success means that you:

• Build a strong understanding of our products, backend architecture, customer needs, and engineering environment.
• Establish trusted working relationships within the backend team and across Product, Engineering, and customer-facing functions.
• Provide clear technical direction and help the team make consistent, well-informed architectural decisions.
• Contribute hands-on to backend services and support the successful delivery of team priorities.
• Identify technical risks and improvement opportunities and translate them into clear, actionable priorities.
• Strengthen the reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability of our backend systems.
• Help engineers grow while supporting their autonomy and ownership.
• Balance long-term technical quality with customer needs and delivery priorities.