Technical lead for backend | Senior | Observability

Main responsibilities

• Identify necessary long-term technical improvements for squad owned code base and collaborate with Engineering Manager on integrating that work into squad’s yearly Roadmap;
• Clarify and present feature development plans based on feature requirements owned by Product Owner;
• Understand trade offs of proposed technical solutions and challenge them by offering better ones;
• Oversee that coding standards are followed and resolve tech dependencies in other squads that block timely feature delivery;
• Mentor and grow squad members’ tech skills, guide team members with troubleshooting technical issues if needed;
• Establish a team's technical direction, while demonstrating the right mindset, dedication, and problem-solving skills.

Core Requirements

• At least 4+ years of experience working with PHP;
• Hands on Golang experience;
• Experience in building highly scalable systems, proficiency in API design;
• Good (My)SQL knowledge and experience with big data quantities;
• Experience with setting technical strategy and direct implementation across several teams;
• Strong understanding of observability, logging, and monitoring in cloud applications;Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills;
• Effective communication and mentorship skills.

Bonus points for

• Experience working with Microservices;
• Docker, RabbitMQ and Redis knowledge;
• Knowledge in CQRS;
• Fluency in Symfony;
• Good knowledge of Plain PHP;
• Knowledge of Time-Series DB.

Tools You Will Use

• PHP 8;
• Golang;
• Symfony;
• SLIM;
• Eloquent ORM;
• Redis;
• MySQL;
• RabbitMQ;
• AWS Lambda's;
• Kibana;
• Sentry;
• Grafana;
• Gitlab CI;