Backend Team Lead

Summary

Join komoot's 100% remote backend team as a team lead. You will lead a team of six engineers, fostering collaboration, growth, and high-performance. Responsibilities include recruiting, mentoring, performance management, and guiding technical decisions. The ideal candidate has 3+ years leading high-performing teams, 5+ years in backend engineering (Kotlin, Java, or Python preferred), and experience with AWS. Komoot offers a flexible remote work environment, generous paid time off, professional development funds, and opportunities to work on impactful projects. The company prioritizes a supportive and collaborative culture.

Requirements

• Are a passionate team leader and bring a strong technical background in backend development
• Have 3+ years of experience as the lead of a long-term and high-performing team
• Have 5+ years of experience in backend engineering (preferably Kotlin, Java, or Python)
• Have 2+ years of experience with managed cloud services, ideally using AWS
• Know how to build scalable, data-intensive backend systems and APIs
• Share complex ideas in clear and simple language
• Can make tough decisions and take responsibility for their consequences
• Find satisfaction in enabling your colleagues to thrive
• Have strong moderating skills to bring discussions to a successful conclusion
• Show empathy for your colleagues as well as being able to give direct and sometimes uncomfortable feedback
• Are a great communicator in a diverse, international, and fully remote team
• You know that team comes first and you go second

Responsibilities

• Be the advocate and voice of the backend team at komoot
• Build and develop your team: Recruit, onboard, and mentor backend engineers
• Monitor your teammates' performance, coach them on professional and personal development, conduct salary negotiations, lead hiring and offboarding processes
• Foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and skill development among team members
• Establish best practices for team processes
• Set goals for team development and technical innovation, and ensure your team achieves and is celebrated for them
• Help the team build a modern and effective tech stack at an industry-leading level
• Keep an overview of modern backend technologies, manage technical projects, and orchestrate technical decisions
• Manage external services and tools, and oversee contracts with vendors and suppliers
• Collaborate with analytics, data science, as well as the frontend and other backend teams

Benefits

• Your work will contribute to helping millions of people enjoy lovely outdoor experiences
• We’ve been a remote-working company since 2017, meaning: We are remote by default, have frameworks and systems in place, and know how to do it well
• You can work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, or anywhere else that lies in any time zone between UTC-1 and UTC+3
• We have your costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work-from-home office setup and the latest devices and equipment to do your best work
• You’ll become an essential part of our diverse and international team with colleagues based in 20+ countries across Europe
• 38 paid days off (inclusive public holidays) – you are free to take those days whenever it suits you, including a well-deserved winter holiday break
• We love seeing people grow. That's why each team member gets €2,000 and 3 additional days to spend on professional development each year. Classes, conferences, books – your choice!
• Core Communication time between 10 am - 3 pm (Berlin Time). We know people have different lifestyles, which is why we have flexible working hours with core time for synchronous interaction. You can organize your workday in the way that best suits you, your family, and your needs
• We work on a project basis in cross functional teams to ensure that we collaborate on our goals, move forward smoothly with open lines of communication, and achieve results as a team
• Every Monday morning, we have a whole-company presentation where you hear about projects across the business, inspire each other, and share great work
• We connect in person at three whole-company gatherings each year in beautiful locations. You can check out this playlist to find out more about how we stay close while being remote