Tech Lead Backend

Who We Are 

We're committed to helping businesses transform our world for the better. We're proud to be a World Economic Forum (WEF) New Champion, and a B Corp-certified company in Singapore and Hong Kong, currently working towards certification across all other locations. 

Our Impact in PALO IT 

Using our B Corp certification and WEF status as our north star, we’re eager to adapt to change, learn from our experiences and move to meet our planet’s urgent needs. With 2025 as our horizon, we are taking action to meet the following objectives: 

• Become a climate net-zero company
• Attain 50% of revenue from projects with a positive impact
• Train 100% of our workforce on impact
• Achieve B Corp certification among all 11 of our offices across the globe
• Attain 90% happy employees at PALO IT 

Our clients are amongst the world's most successful companies. We innovate with both established Fortune 1000s, SMEs and start-ups who aim to make an impact, become global leaders and address the world's most complex challenges. 

What does your job look like?

The role of the Tech Lead Backend will be management in software development, application architecture, design thinking and problem solving to help create rapid prototypes and enable the rapid acceleration of ideas. You will also work closely with project teams and business stakeholders and provide technical expertise that enables innovation. 

Main Responsibilities

• Ability to quickly understand and learn a wide variety of software environments and solutions. 
• Able to lead and guide the team in technical issues and business logic 
• Experience in different projects that demonstrate capacity and experience in programming; preferably at least 5 years of hands-on experience with various Java/web technologies and frameworks: Spring (Core, Security, MVC), JPA, REST, JMS, Maven 
• At least 3 years in building and delivering web/mobile business solutions lead engineer roles (eg, in banking, travel, finance, healthcare, information industries); It is useful. 
• Good working knowledge of medialization in RDBM, or NoSQL offerings.
• Experience in the following technologies is a plus: SVN, GIT, Elastic Search or SOLR, Activiti.
• Very good knowledge of design patterns and development principles.
• Working knowledge and experience with Unified Modeling Language (UML) for business modeling (workflows) and object modeling.
• Previous/proven experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment, DevOps and a successful track record of developing software in an agile environment, with changing requirements.
• Good general banking knowledge or banking knowledge related to wealth management/private banking.
• ESB/API Mgmt experience.

What you need to succeed on this rol 

• Java 11+ language,
• plus JavaScript + TypeScript
• Frameworks Spring Boot, Spring Core, Hibernate
• Dependency management with Maven
• Microservices design patterns SAGA, CQRS, Service Mesh
• Knowledge of FaaS paradigm (AWS Lambda Functions)
• Design of restful APIs (Swagger), it is a plus if you know grpc/graphql
• Experience in implementing restful based microservices, grpc.
• Advanced/conversational English Level. B1 and above. 

DevOps Practices

• Git Branch strategy
• Knowledge of DevOps (CI, CD)
• Knowledge in Sonar
• Use of some CI Engine (github actions, gitlab-ci, jenkins)

Cloud Native

• Knowledge in AWS
• Knowledge in Kubernetes

Soft Skills: 

• Communication
• Stress Management
• Resilience
• Continuous Improvement
• Conversational English 

En Palo IT, we are a team of Values 

• local partner
• Nice
• Enthusiastic
• Outgoing
• Leader 

What We Offer 

• Stimulating working environments 
• Unique career path 
• International mobility  
• Internal R&D projects 
• Knowledge sharing
• Personalized training
• Entrepreneurship & intrapreneurship 

For more on our team culture and benefits, check out our careers page.