Engineering Lead Backend
Engel & Völkers
Engineering Lead Backend
Engel & Völkers
Global real estate agency and franchisor
Salary Range: 70000 to 80000 (Currency: EUR) (Pay period: per-year-salary)
Do you want to play an instrumental role as an Engineering Lead Backend (f/m/d)* – Java & Spring Boot in a time of amazing growth in our new Tech Hub in Athens? Read on to learn more!
As Engineering Lead Backend (f/m/d)* – Java & Spring Boot you will accelerate the evolution of our global real estate platform. In this role you will take strategic, technical, and people leadership of the team powering our proprietary B2B CRM. You will champion architecture, DevOps best practices, and AI integration across the SDLC while mentoring talented engineers to deliver high-availability, cloud-native systems.
With the power of a globally successful brand, we at Engel & Völkers are breaking new ground and developing innovative digital products and services with our international colleagues: With a team of > 150 engineers, UI/UX designers, product managers, cloud & data experts, we develop industry-leading e2e solutions for our customers and real estate agents - i.e. our customer facing website and a tailor-made CRM - using a state-of-the-art tech stack.
Seize this unique opportunity to enjoy the atmosphere of a startup while having the benefits of a large and successful organization: Right from the start, you will have a lot of personal responsibility and creative freedom. Challenging tasks will provide you with individual development opportunities.
Τake over the strategic, technical, and disciplinary responsibility for one the engineering teams building our Agent Platform.
Define and align technical goals for your team, setting measurable objectives to ensure efficient and high-quality delivery.
Lead and steer the full DevOps lifecycle - starting from architecture, (technical) design and development to deployment, operations and continuous optimization.
Actively foster the adoption and integration of AI across the entire SLDC, in close alignment with the other teams and departments.
Implement security, reliability, and observability best practices (SLIs/SLOs, logging, tracing, alerting).
Collaborate closely with key stakeholders across the organization, including Product Management and Design, the Clouds, Security and Data teams and the C-level management.
Act as coach and mentor for your engineers , supporting their professional growth.
We are eager to hear from you if you…
👉 Several years of experience in a Principal/Lead Software Engineering role - previous leadership experience is a big plus.
👉 Strong experience building state-of-the-art, scalable and reliable services in a highly complex, distributed environment, based on Java and Spring Boot.
👉 Versed in designing APIs and writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code (unit, integration, contract tests).
👉 Excellent and deep understanding of relational database design and SQL (PostgreSQL preferred).
👉 Proven expertise and experience in cloud-native architectures (GCP preferred), containers/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD.
👉 Highly proactive, collaborative and product-minded with a strong sense of ownership.
👉 Event-driven systems, domain modeling, distributed systems at scale, security by design, performance tuning.
🌴 Minimum 25 days annual leave plus 24.12 / 31.12 off
🏢 Hybrid working model with 50% attendance at our newly established office in the heart of Athens
💶 A competitive salary
🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance
🤓 Udemy learning flatrate + courses from the Engel & Völkers academy
🎫 Monthly meal allowance
📈 Regular performance reviews ensuring clear career progression paths
💻 State of the art equipment
Sounds interesting? Then don’t hesitate to apply today!
We have specialized in real estate services in the premium segment for over 45 years. Today, we are active in over 35 countries, on five continents and at over 1,000 locations with more than 16,600 people under the Engel & Völkers brand and embody our shared values: expertise, exclusivity and passion.
The digitalization of the real estate industry is one of the most exciting prop-tech trends that will accompany us in the economy in the coming years. At Engel & Völkers Technology, we are playing a key role in reshaping our industry and are pioneers in digital real estate brokerage of premium residential properties.
Global real estate agency and franchisor
Engel & Völkers delivers residential and commercial real estate services globally. It grew from a Hamburg-based firm and built its model around a standardized service manual, which enabled a franchise system started in the late 1990s and rapid international expansion to Europe and the United States. The brand is known for its distinctive villa-based identity and a network of franchise offices that sell and rent properties through local experts under a consistent global approach. The company differentiates itself by combining a luxury, recognizable brand with a scalable franchise model, and by using a digitalization push backed by a private equity investor to fuel growth. The goal is to offer premium real estate services worldwide through a large, consistent franchise network while continuing to expand into new markets and digital capabilities.
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