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The language requirements for this position are: English - Fluent.

As Team Lead for JavaEE & API Engineering at SECLOUS, you’ll be responsible for people, architecture, and technical excellence—and, together with your team, you’ll develop innovative security solutions that make a real impact.
You combine modern JavaEE and API development with clear leadership, high code quality, and a commitment to implementing complex technologies in a pragmatic and sustainable way.
In doing so, you’ll work on our patented cybersecurity technology NVD that makes data invisible and our digital world more secure.
non-visible data. visible trust.

Activities

Leadership & Ownership:
You will take on the disciplinary and technical leadership of an engineering team and create an environment where people, architecture, and product quality grow together.

Architecture & Quality:
You will be responsible for technical decisions related to Java EE, RESTful APIs, Java libraries, and cross-language integration. In doing so, you will ensure clean architecture, sustainable standards, and high code quality.

Mentoring & Development:
You support developers in their professional growth, provide guidance, conduct reviews, and foster a culture of clarity, accountability, and continuous learning.

Coordination & Impact:
You structure technical issues, prioritize tasks in collaboration with stakeholders, remove roadblocks, and ensure that complex security solutions are implemented efficiently and reliably.

Innovation:
With us, you’ll dive deep into our innovative Non-Visible Data technology and actively help shape how secure, sovereign, and interoperable data usage works in practice.

Teamwork:
Collaboration is central to our work. You’ll be closely involved with the team -whether working remotely or in the office -and foster commitment, communication, and technical excellence.

Requirements

• Several years of experience in software development with Java / JavaEE
• Solid experience in designing RESTful APIs and Java libraries
• Very good understanding of modern Java versions and best practices
• Experience in technical leadership, architecture responsibility, or team lead roles (incl. Scrum experience)
• Experience in disciplinary leadership or a clear motivation to take on this responsibility
• Ability to structure technical complexity and drive clear decisions
• High standards for architecture, code, reviews, and development processes
• Good knowledge of build and dependency management tools, e.g., Gradle, CMake, or comparable
• Understanding of modern C++ codebases and cross-language integration concepts
• Excellent communication skills on both technical and interpersonal levels
• Fluent in English
  

Nice to have (not a must, but a plus):
Experience with ...

• JNI, Pybind, or comparable integration approaches
• Frontend frameworks such as Angular, AngularJS, or React
• GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development processes
• Security, defense, public sector, or safety-critical software projects
• Remote debugging and cross-language error analysis

Team

Our team combines technical expertise and interpersonal skills. We are a group that values collaboration, whether working remotely or in the office, and fosters commitment, communication, and technical excellence.

What drives us and keeps us together? Our team code: our shared values:

𝗕𝗘 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗔𝗡

We are open and live diversity – towards people, ideas and approach.

𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧

What we do should not only work – it should make a difference: for people, for companies and for a fair data future.

𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗦 𝗤𝗨𝗢

Stagnation is not an option for us – we continue to develop because we want to help shape the future: personal, together and technological.

𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗙𝗧𝗘𝗬

Our solution provides protection for others - and we provide a safe space for you to be yourself.

Application Process

Who would you like to enter into your next professional relationship with? Not always an easy question.

Our application process is specially designed to offer enough opportunities to get to know each other as well as possible.

1. Application check

Great – your application has arrived! We carefully check your documents and if we think you could be a good addition to our team, we will invite you to an initial meeting.

2. First connect - we get to know each other
We meet for a video call – an initial meeting in which we find out what is important to both sides and also answer the first questions. Do we fit together well at first “glance”?

3. Skill Deep Dive - focus on your expertise

In this interview, we take a closer look at your skills and the professional experience you have gained on your journey so far. In some cases, we combine the interview with a code case to learn more about your approach and way of working.
Here you will get to know the manager and possibly another colleague from your potential new team.

4. Team match do we fit together ?

Once we know what you can do, we would like to get to know you more personally in this interview. Do our values and mindset align?
You will get to know colleagues from other teams and get another insight into our company.

5. It fits - our offer to you

If you are a really good fit for us, we would be happy to make you an offer. Now it’s up to you: ready to join?

6. Onboarding - Welcome to the team!

In the first few weeks, we will support you intensively – you will receive all the important information, get to know your team and the work processes, and gradually arrive with us.

About the Company

SECLOUS stands for innovation, trust and security in our interconnected world. Instead of new security products, we deliver the needed capabilities to build more secure products – without compromising efficiency, interoperability or control.
Our patented Non-Visible Data (NVD) technology offers protection invisible to users and effortless for developers.

Our team combines technical expertise and interpersonal skills. This has earned us numerous awards and a place among Germany's most innovative cyber security companies.

To turn ideas into real impact, we’re looking for people who want to help shape the future and share our mission to make the digital world secure.

non-visible data. visible trust.