Lead Backend Engineer (PHP)

We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer (PHP) to join our Platform Experience team, where we are responsible for the end-to-end customer journey within the Supermetrics Platform.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape our data-driven future and enhance user experiences through:

• End-to-End Platform Experience: Collaborate with a dynamic team to shape and optimize user journeys, driving impactful customer experiences and growth
• Data-Driven Insights: Create engaging tools that empower users with valuable insights to help drive their decision-making
• Innovative Experiences: Play a key role in the development of cutting-edge features, utilizing the latest technologies to enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
• Team Collaboration & Growth: Contribute to fostering a culture of continuous improvement by helping streamline workflows and enhancing team synergy

Your day-to-day work and responsibilities will include:

• Leading the development of new features and functionalities for our customers
• Leading and planning 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

Technologies you’ll be working with:

• PHP
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Git
• OpenSearch
• Grafana
• DataDog
• GCP
• AWS

 This role is for you if you have:

• 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

 Nice to have skills:

• 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 we offer:

• 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

Does this sound like your next adventure? Apply now! We’ll fill the role as soon as we find the right person.

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