Lead Back-End Engineer

We are looking for a Lead Back-end Engineer who can take full ownership of one of our products and its team. If you enjoy diving into existing product, writing code, growing and leading a team, and making technical decisions that directly impact product stability and business growth, this quest is for you 🚀

💪 YOUR QUEST-LINE: Own the backend of one of the company products end-to-end: architecture, reliability, and delivery of complex and high-impact features; Build and lead a team of mid/senior back-end engineers: hiring, onboarding, conducting performance reviews; Hand-on development (approx. 70% initially, gradually shifting towards management as team grows); Drive architectural discussions and implementation planning; Establish, maintain and improve back-end engineering standards; Contribute to reducing technical debt and improving development processes; Collaborate closely with product managers, frontend developers, DevOps, and other backend engineers; Support building a healthy feedback culture.

👨‍🚀 YOUR IN-GAME SKIN: 5+ years of back-end experience, 1–3 of them in a Team/Tech Lead role; Experience in hiring engineers and growing a team from small size (1-2 devs) to a medium size squad; Experience with PHP (8.1+) and Laravel (9.0+): console commands, jobs, horizon, writing APIs; Experience with MySQL/MariaDB (complex queries, optimization, database design, indexes and optimizations); query profiling should be easy; Redis (or other caching, queues and event bus), understanding of process synchronization and atomic locks; Understanding of high-load systems, including scalability, fault tolerance, and performance considerations; Experience with asynchronous processing: queues and background jobs, schedulers, and event-driven patterns (Laravel Queues/Horizon or similar); API design & governance: REST/JSON, OpenAPI, versioning, error taxonomies, pagination, rate limiting; auth (JWT/OAuth); CI/CD (GitHub/GitLab), Docker; good grasp of cloud basics (AWS preferred) and observability (Sentry, Prometheus/Grafana/ELK); Knowledge of Software Development and Architectural patterns; Ability to design architecture from scratch and scale it with the team; You care about performance, stability, and scalability; Familiar with writing framework-level code, even if not part of your daily work; Comfortable setting up processes and aligning the team around them; Clear communicator who gives honest, helpful feedback; Prioritization of bringing Product value over Engineering perfection.

🚀 WILL BE YOUR BOOST: Experience with microservices architecture; Experience in building modular/service-oriented applications; Experience in working with Kubernetes, AWS; You know how to balance delivery speed with technical debt; Experienced in cross-functional collaboration: engineering, product, design, and analytics; Experience in defining SLAs/SLOs and setting up production monitoring/alerting; Flexible leadership style, depending on team context; Familiar with performance and observability metrics.

🥷 YOUR POWER-UPS SOURCE: Spontaneous weekend from the CEO; Support for professional development, including events (we went on a MAJOR trip to Copenhagen, for example), certifications, and educational materials; Start working at a time that’s comfortable for you; People Partner who will always support you in word and deed; Anniversary and performance bonuses; Input on project direction in a bureaucracy-free environment; Regular performance reviews and personal feedback sessions; 20 paid vacation days and 7 sick leave days; Assisting with the accounting and tax management for individual entrepreneurs; English language and Well-being benefit — so that you can improve your mental health the way you want; No time tracking; We purchase CHARGING STATIONS for our spacers; We help Ukraine: every month the company supports AFU and transfers donations for ammunition and supplies.

If you read everything carefully and exclaimed: «Oh, yeah, I'm good at everything and I want to do cool things together!», then we are already looking forward to your resume and portfolio!

Send them as soon as possible! 🚀