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OpenVPN® helps businesses of all sizes create secure, virtualized, reliable networks that scale with your team.
Engineering Lead – Backend Architecture, Java, Distributed Systems, Security
Location
Albania
Posted
137 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Engineering Lead – Backend Architecture, Java, Distributed Systems, Security
OpenVPN Inc.
• Lead and manage a team of 7–10 backend engineers, with clear ownership of delivery, quality, and sustainable execution. • Drive practical, team-wide adoption of AI-assisted software development, integrating AI tools into everyday workflows such as design, implementation, testing, code review, and incident analysis. • Own and continuously evolve the architecture of large-scale, security-critical cloud services consisting of 70+ Java-based microservices. • Act as the primary architectural decision-maker for the team, balancing long-term maintainability, security, and scalability with delivery needs. • Define and maintain engineering standards and best practices, including clear guidance on effective and responsible use of AI tools. • Support engineers through coaching, regular feedback, and mentorship, fostering a collaborative, psychologically safe, and high-performing team environment. • Guide the design and development of web-based management APIs using JSON and REST. • Collaborate closely with other teams and stakeholders on system design, integration, and deployment. • Remain hands-on when needed, focusing on architectural validation, complex problem-solving, and high-impact code reviews rather than day-to-day feature delivery. • Promote high standards in security, reliability, performance, and operational readiness across all owned systems.
Job Requirements
- 6+ years of commercial software development experience, including 5+ years of hands-on Java development.
- Proven experience in a technical leadership or people management role, leading a small to mid-sized engineering team.
- Strong experience designing and maintaining distributed, cloud-native systems in production environments.
- Practical, hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools to improve development speed, code quality, or team efficiency.
- Experience introducing or standardizing AI-assisted development practices at team level, with a focus on measurable productivity or quality improvements.
- Strong experience building modern REST services using Spring Boot.
- Hands-on experience with security-related technologies, including Spring Security (OAuth2, SAML).
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking, SSL/TLS, and VPN concepts.
- Experience working with MongoDB, Redis, and relational databases.
- Experience with Docker-based deployments, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure.
- Experience using the AWS SDK for Java.
- Experience with Java messaging systems (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.).
- Comfortable working in Linux-based development environments.
- Upper-intermediate or higher English, with the ability to communicate clearly about technical and architectural topics.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Fully remote work environment
- Self-managed time off
- Long-term cooperation via B2B contract
- Work on globally recognized, security-critical products
- A small team culture that values trust, ownership and engineering excellence
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