TL;DR
Integrations Tech Lead (Backend): Own the technical design, delivery, and operational excellence of integration services and API ecosystems. With an accent on scalable, secure, and maintainable integration architectures. Focus on designing and implementing RESTful and event-driven integrations, leading technical teams, and ensuring high availability and operational reliability.
Location: Birkirkara, Malta
Company
Eeze
What you will do
- Own architecture and technical roadmap for integration services and APIs ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Design, implement, and maintain RESTful and event-driven integration patterns, connectors, and middleware services.
- Define and enforce integration standards, API contracts, versioning, and authentication/authorization protocols.
- Ensure high availability, monitoring, alerting, and lead incident response for integration-related issues.
- Lead code reviews, promote clean code, testing, and automation to meet security and performance requirements.
- Mentor integration engineers and collaborate with Product, QA, and DevOps teams for successful delivery.
Requirements
- Location: Birkirkara, Malta
- 6+ years experience in backend or integration engineering with 2–3 years in a technical lead role.
- Strong expertise with Java, Kotlin, Node.js, RESTful APIs, message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ), and event-driven architectures.
- Knowledge of authentication protocols (OAuth2, JWT, mTLS) and security best practices.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.