Technical Lead for Backend | Senior | Observability - Remote

Overview

The Backend department uses modern and innovative technologies to create our world-leading cybersecurity products. We have squads that work towards different goals, but we are mainly known as driven professionals writing quality code.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• At least 4+ years of experience working with PHP.
• Hands on Golang experience - a must.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.