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Team Lead PHP

1 month ago
Serbia, Spain, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Poland, Armenia
Full-time
Lead
Backend Engineer
Software Development
Agile ClickHouse Docker Grafana Kafka Kanban Kubernetes Laravel Linux MySQL PHP Prometheus Redis Scrum Symfony
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Talentgrator

Talentgrator

Talentgrator specializes in providing recruitment services tailored specifically for the iGaming industry, connecting businesses with skilled professionals and helping job seekers find optimal employment opportunities.

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure
11-50
Founded 2020
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Description

  • Build, grow, and develop a team of Senior PHP Engineers.
  • Participate in hiring, including technical and architectural interviews.
  • Design onboarding programs for experienced engineers.
  • Conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings, performance reviews, and career development discussions.
  • Facilitate architectural discussions and guide technical decision-making.
  • Lead code reviews and uphold code quality, design, and engineering standards.
  • Establish and optimize Agile development processes, including Scrum and Kanban.
  • Support task decomposition, estimation, planning, and execution.
  • Drive the design and evolution of scalable PHP backend architectures.
  • Own service stability, production reliability, incident response, and root cause analysis.
  • Oversee database design, performance optimization, and event-driven system implementation.
  • Collaborate with Product, DevOps, QA, and engineering leaders to align priorities and delivery goals.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience as a Team Lead or Tech Lead managing PHP engineering teams.
  • 6+ years of commercial PHP development experience.
  • Expert knowledge of PHP 8.x and modern backend development practices.
  • Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns, and software architecture.
  • Strong experience with Symfony and/or Laravel.
  • Advanced knowledge of MySQL, including query optimization, indexing, replication, performance tuning, concurrency, and lock optimization.
  • Experience working with Redis.
  • Experience with ClickHouse or other analytical databases.
  • Strong practical experience with Apache Kafka and event-driven architectures.
  • Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux environments, and networking fundamentals.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
  • Experience conducting performance reviews and mentoring engineers.
  • Preferred: coaching and servant leadership mindset with the ability to build a peer-to-peer culture without micromanagement.

Benefits

  • 20 vacation days and 5 family days per year.
  • Flexible start to the workday.
  • Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist.
  • Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events.
  • Access to an internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities.
  • Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support.

Interested in this position?

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