Back End Team Lead

We aren’t just another B2B SaaS company - we are the engine behind the next era of hospitality.

At Smart Host, we’re on a mission to bridge the gap between hotels and their guests. How? By building a cutting-edge platform that turns fragmented data into deep, actionable insights. For 2026, we’re taking it to the next level as we are building an hospitality ecosystem where industry-leading tech partners unite to redefine the guest experience of tomorrow.

As our Backend Team Lead
, you will head the engineering efforts behind our core hospitality solution. You will balance hands-on development with technical leadership, ensuring our architecture scales as fast as our customer base. You aren't just managing people; you are the guardian of code quality and the architect of our cloud infrastructure.

Your tasks in a nutshell:

• Technical Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of high-performing backend engineers, fostering a culture of excellence, transparency, and continuous learning.
• Architectural Vision: Own the development of our web-app backend and its non-trivial business logic, ensuring the system is built for scale and resilience.
• Dev Ops Ownership: Take full responsibility for your team's code and the cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes/Cloud) it runs on.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Frontend Leads and Product Designers to design efficient APIs and deliver a flawless user experience.
• Fight Complexity: Lead the charge against emerging technical debt by rethinking systems from the ground up when necessary.
• Strategic Growth: Assist in hiring, technical interviewing, and refining our engineering roadmap to align with business goals.

• Java Expert: You are proficient in Java (keeping pace with the latest versions) and have a deep understanding of the Spring Boot ecosystem
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• Cloud Native: You have experience with Kubernetes and are familiar with modern tooling (e.g., Helm, Terraform, Gradle).
• Systems Thinker: You understand the fundamentals of networking, distributed computing, and asynchronous messaging
• Root Cause Navigator: You don't shift responsibility; you dig deep into the stack to find and fix the source of a problem.
• Leadership Mindset: You have experience (or a strong desire) in leading people, conducting code reviews, sharing knowledge and developing your team and its perfromance.
• Pragmatic Engineer: You care about clean code and refactoring but understand the balance between perfection and time-to-market in a startup.
• Fluency in English: You are able to communicate fluently in English, verbally as well as in written. German skills are an advantage.
• Entitlement to work in Germany: You are leaglly entitled to work freely within the European Union and you do not require a visa sponsorship.

• A role with an impact: Your voice is heard! We want your ideas and give them space to unfold!
• Hybrid work or Remote: Your Work-Life-Balance matters! Our Hybrid work model gives you time to focus on your tasks and still manage your personal life. We also welcoming applicants based in Europe, entitled to work freely within the European union, willing to travel occasionally to our Berlin office.
• Team Culture: We are super proud of our diverse and multi-cultural team, that includes also our hairy pet colleagues in the office.
• Smart Host Days - Team Travel: Yep. Correct, we take the entire team to a yearly team trip abroad. Despite high impactful trainings, we want our team to live our mission - make vacation smart!

Ready to level up your career? Join the Smart Host journey and help us build the ecosystem of the future. The revolution in hospitality is happening right here - don't miss out this opportunity and reach out to us!