Engineering Lead - Backend
Full Time лв.9,250 - лв.10,000 / monthJob Overview
NOTE: This is a hybrid role that would require presence in our Sofia or Plovdiv office 1-2 times per week, as agreed.
Reward Gateway|Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments for people at work, connecting 52 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients. Our shared missions of ‘Making the World a Better Place to Work' and ‘Enriching connections, For good’ guide our actions and chart a sustainable path to a better future.
An opportunity has become available for a Backend Engineering Lead. In this position, you'll lead a team and participate in design reviews, recommend improvements, and work with the teams to develop, deliver, and maintain platform improvements.
Reward Gateway|Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments for people at work, connecting 52 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients. Our shared missions of ‘Making the World a Better Place to Work' and ‘Enriching connections, For good’ guide our actions and chart a sustainable path to a better future.
An opportunity has become available for a Backend Engineering Lead. In this position, you'll lead a team and participate in design reviews, recommend improvements, and work with the teams to develop, deliver, and maintain platform improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Proficiency: Proficient in PHP with experience using relevant libraries and frameworks.
- Scalability and Performance Optimization: Experience developing large-scale systems to handle high volumes of user interactions.
- System Architecture: Experience in designing and architecting scalable, modular, and maintainable systems.
- Leadership and Team Management: Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and driving the team toward project goals. Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams.
- Defining, interpreting, and developing software to written requirements and technical specifications
- Write clean, well-designed code, following coding standards and best practices
- Working with globally distributed and multi-disciplinary teams
Salary budget: лв. 9,250 to лв. 10,000 Gross per month (лв. 7,800 to лв. 8,500 Net per month)
Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:
- 6+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer with a minimum of 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role
- Proven team management and leadership skills
- Experience with PHP is required
- Experience with OOP concepts and SOLID principles
- Experience with Unit and Integration testing
- Experience with design patterns
- A good understanding of building and operating cloud-based microservices
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills