Backend Development Team Lead

3 days ago

Belgrade, Central Serbia Action Engine Full time €40,000 - €80,000 per year

Action Engine is seeking a Backend Development Team Lead to drive the design and implementation of our backend systems - powering cloud portals used by customers, internal tools that support company scaling, and observability platforms for thousands of deployed devices. You will lead a small but highly capable team of backend engineers, shaping architecture, ensuring scalability and reliability, and mentoring developers to deliver exceptional results.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the backend development team - define technical vision, set priorities, and ensure delivery excellence;
  • Architect, build, and operate the next generation of the backbone for our services architecture;
  • Design scalable APIs and backend services for customer-facing and internal applications;
  • Build and operate CI/CD pipelines for both physical devices and cloud services;
  • Implement infrastructure as code to manage large-scale AWS deployments;
  • Champion best DevOps and SRE practices across the engineering organization.
  • Work cross-functionally to gather requirements, align stakeholders, and develop effective solutions;
  • Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and foster a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement;
  • Take ownership of system reliability, incident prevention, and remediation processes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field;
  • 6+ years of backend development experience, including 2+ years in a leadership or team lead role;
  • Proficiency in Python;
  • Strong experience with CI/CD;
  • Deep understanding of relational, time-series, and document databases (SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.);
  • Proven track record of building and maintaining scalable distributed systems;
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to motivate and guide a technical team;
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ownership mindset;
  • Comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

  • Experience integrating computer vision or IoT systems on hardware devices;
  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes);
  • Background in automotive, robotics, or real-time systems.

What We Offer

  • Leadership role in a fast-growing deep-tech company working with cutting-edge technologies;
  • Opportunities for personal and professional growth in a progressive, global environment;
  • A culture where developers make their own decisions using modern, automated infrastructure;
  • Competitive salary and benefits package;
  • Support for relocation and legalization in Serbia;
  • Work with experts in AI, Computer Vision, and Cloud Infrastructure.

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