Lead Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Supermetrics' Platform Experience team as a Lead Backend Engineer (PHP)! You will lead the development of new features, guide team members, and collaborate with stakeholders to shape user journeys and optimize the platform. This role requires 7+ years of backend experience with PHP, a strong commitment to code quality, and proven leadership skills. You'll work with technologies like PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more. We offer a competitive compensation package, health care benefits, a personal learning budget, and more. If you're passionate about data and enjoy a collaborative environment, apply now!

Requirements

• 7+ years of backend experience, including experience with PHP (Core)
• Prior experience as a Tech Lead, demonstrating your ability to guide and mentor a team
• Experience working with API integrations
• A strong commitment to code quality, including experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Proven ability to lead architecture and software design discussions and translate them into actionable plans
• Proven ability to apply software testing principles effectively
• Expertise with security best practices
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Fluent communication in English
• Ability to give effective feedback

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of new features and functionalities for our customers
• Lead and plan new initiatives and features
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, prioritize features, and estimate development efforts
• Drive and enforce high code quality standards through thorough code reviews, promoting best practices in software development, and ensuring maintainability and scalability
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and share knowledge to enhance the team's overall performance and expertise
• Proactively identify and address potential system bottlenecks, improve monitoring and alerting capabilities, and ensure the stability and performance
• Utilizing existing monitoring tools to ensure system stability

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of monitoring and infra tools and ability to interpret monitoring data using Datadog, OpenSearch and Grafana to track application performance and system metrics
• Understanding of tools such as GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, to automate and containerize our application and services

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package, including equity
• Excellent work equipment and home office allowance for those working in our fully remote locations
• Health care benefits and leisure time insurance
• Annual 1000 euros of personal learning budget
• Sports and wellbeing allowance