Backend Team Lead

The Company Glassbox's mission is to empower enterprises to shape trusted, frictionless digital experiences. Glassbox is a leading force in shaping digital experiences. It helps organizations uncover digital issues, boost conversion rates, enhance accessibility, prevent fraud, and more. Leveraging AI-driven customer intelligence, Glassbox enables enterprises to deliver secure, proactive, and preventative digital experiences. Its solutions are trusted by highly regulated organizations, including SoFi, Cal, and many others. We are growing and have been recognized by G2 as one of 2024's Top 50 Software Companies in the world. Glassbox is looking for a Backend Team Lead for our global team. What You Will Do? Lead the design, development, and optimization of core backend services using Java and modern JVM technologies. Own the architecture and performance of mission-critical components: data ingestion, processing pipelines, distributed services, storage abstractions, and internal frameworks. Drive large-scale refactoring, modernization, and reliability initiatives. Establish and maintain high engineering standards, code quality, and best practices across the entire R&D Build and improve systems that handle high throughput, low latency, and massive data scale. Work closely with DevOps/SRE/R&D teams to strengthen infrastructure, observability, automation, and deployment practices. Diagnose complex production issues spanning multiple services, layers, and technologies. Continuously improve system performance, resource efficiency, and cost footprint. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of backend engineers and define best practices for the entire R&D Conduct technical reviews, coaching, and hands-on training to elevate the team’s skill set and the R&D Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand platform needs and translate them into a clear engineering roadmap.   What You Will Need? 8+ years of backend development experience, with deep expertise in Java and JVM internals. Experience in leading engineering teams or tech lead Strong background in distributed systems, high-scale backend architectures, concurrency, and multithreading. Hands-on experience with performance tuning, profiling, multi-threading, memory management, and debugging complex systems. Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, messaging systems, and scalable data processing. Experience handling critical production systems and incident response. Deep experience with Spring and distributed backend architectures. Strong hands-on knowledge of Cassandra, Kafka, Postgres Advantage: Elasticsearch (including full-text search concepts). Experience designing systems for high throughput, low latency, and horizontal scalability. Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, distributed Strong track record in debugging and resolving complex production issues. Our Commitment  At Glassbox, we value curiosity, ownership, and a constant drive to learn and improve, no matter the gender, age, nationality, religion, or background. We believe diverse perspectives make us better, and that potential matters just as much as experience, and encourage people of all shapes and sizes to apply. If this role excites you and you're motivated to make an impact - we'd love to hear from you, even if you don't meet every listed qualification.