Lead Engineer Backend Java
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will design, build, operate, and scale the event-driven microservices owned by your team. You will develop services using Java, Spring Boot, and JOOQ; build and consume RESTful APIs; and work with SNS, SQS, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Aurora. You will deploy frequently through CI/CD, use GitOps and cloud-platform tooling, monitor services with DataDog, and turn user, business, and regulatory needs into secure, tested, documented solutions.
Requirements
- Experience building server-side applications
- Knowledge of relevant programming languages for the backend stack and willingness to learn Java
- Knowledge of a backend framework such as Spring or Spring Boot
- Experience building microservices that expose and consume RESTful APIs
- Experience engineering scalable and reliable cloud-native solutions
- Understanding of CI/CD and practical Agile delivery
- Ability to deliver secure, well-tested, and well-documented software
- Experience integrating with third-party providers and partners
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and globally scale the microservices owned by your team
- Build services using Java 17, Spring Boot, and JOOQ
- Expose and consume RESTful APIs
- Send events using SNS, SQS, and Kafka
- Use PostgreSQL via Aurora as the primary datastore
- Deploy services to production through CI/CD pipelines
- Use GitOps with ArgoCD and cloud-platform tooling
- Monitor services and investigate issues using DataDog
- Collaborate with Product Owners to translate user, business, and regulatory requirements into engineered solutions
Benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave
- 3 paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities
- Extended company-covered maternity and paternity leave
- Personal learning and development budget of 500 EUR per year
- Additional health and dental insurance
- Mental wellbeing platform
- Fully covered Multisports card
- Food vouchers
- Office snacks, light food, and drinks
- Work-from-home equipment allowance
- Flexible working from home
- Sabbatical leave
- Share options
