Backend Lead XLab

Salary: CHF 130’000 - 155’000 per year

Requirements:

• In this role you will be responsible for leading an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building quality-based development culture.
• Your tasks will also include:
• • Proven ability to lead and grow people (coaching, feedback, accountability) in a distributed setup.
• • Excellent stakeholder skills: communicate clearly with senior leadership and influence decisions with facts, clarity, and persuasion.
• • Fluency in (Swiss) German and English (required).
• • Deep knowledge of Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
• • Experience in building microservice-based backends using Java + Spring Boot.
• • Practical experience with Docker and container orchestration—preferably Kubernetes.

Responsibilities:

• In this role you will be responsible for leading an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building quality-based development culture.
• Your tasks will also include
• • Lead an agile team (Kanban/Scrum) across different locations, ensuring continuous delivery of new functionality, efficiency, compliance with engineering standards, and building a quality-based development culture.
• • Act as the main point of contact between the technical team and management: translate business needs into technical direction and vice versa.
• • Own the codebase, tech stack, and applications throughout the full lifecycle.
• • Perform backend development with Java and Spring Boot.
• • Design, build, automate, deploy, and maintain robust and secure client-facing wealth management applications.
• • Drive DevOps practices: deployment automation, CI/CD, reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence.

Technologies:

• Backend
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• ElasticSearch
• Support
• JVM
• Java
• Kanban
• Kubernetes
• Security
• Spring
• Spring Boot

More:

PROFIDATA offers software solutions for investment and wealth management through its subsidiaries in major European financial centers. This offering is complemented by a rapidly growing, broad range of services in software as a service, consulting, implementation, training, and support. XLab is Profidatas innovation center based in Zürich, Switzerland. With a small and passionate team, the company is developing new cloud-native productivity tools that are good looking, fun, and easy to use. If you want to build and run a high-quality backend that makes a real impact for clients and are looking forward to leading a motivated cross-site team, then you may be the ideal candidate for the Backend Lead - 80-100% (f/m/d) position.

We offer: • A great team with flat hierarchies. • An open and entrepreneurial working atmosphere that leaves room for creativity and initiative. • Greenfield development. • A modern tech stack.

Become curious? APPLY NOW Profidata AG Bändliweg 30 8048 Zürich +41 44 736 47 47 jobs@profidata.com www.profidata.com

last updated 9 week of 2026