About the role
About Qualifyze, Founded in 2019, Qualifyze is a leading company in supply chain compliance management in the Life Sciences industry, trusted by over 1,500 pharmaceutical and healthcare companies globally. Our digital suite of solutions connects manufacturers, suppliers, and a global network of more than 250 auditors and quality experts. With a track record of over 4,500 audits across 85+ countries and the largest and most accurate supplier network and data analytics tools, Qualifyze stands as the all-in-one partner for quality compliance and supply chain risk mitigation in the Life Sciences sector. Role Overview: We are looking for Backend engineering Lead who will be responsible for the overall backend ecosystem across the organization, combining people leadership with ownership of backend architecture, standards, and delivery quality. This role ensures that backend development and architecture is consistent, scalable, and aligned with product, while growing backend engineers and enabling teams to deliver effectively. The Backend Lead operates in close alignment with the Head of Engineering and Chapter Leads, ensuring all key decisions and initiatives follow the broader engineering vision. Main
responsibilities: 1. Backend Ownership & Strategy Define and drive the backend vision across teams (architecture, design systems, tooling, standards). Ensure consistency in how backend applications are built and maintained. Own cross-team backend topics. Make and enforce key technical decisions when alignment is needed. 2. Team Leadership & Capability Building Lead and support backend engineers, ensuring efficient and impactful delivery of initiatives while driving team engagement, efficiency, and growth. Raise the bar of backend engineering through running regular 1:1s and performance check-ins, coaching, and clear development support. Identify skill gaps and drive training, and mentoring initiatives to close skill gaps, improve team capability, and continuously strengthen ways of working. Own and drive key people processes for
the team (in alignment with Tech Leadership), including hiring, onboarding, offboarding, performance reviews, and