Lead Backend Engineer (PHP/Go)

We’re a team of 500+ professionals who develop cutting-edge proxy and web data scraping solutions for thousands of the world’s best known businesses, including Fortune 500 companies.

What’s in store for you:

• Lead, mentor, and support the development team while remaining actively involved in hands-on software development;
• Design and develop scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems, writing clean, tested, and documented code;
• Own and oversee the full development lifecycle - from research and technical design to deployment and production support;
• Drive technical decision-making, review code and architecture, and establish high engineering standards and development practices;
• Contribute to technical decision-making in an early-stage, fast-growing project;
• Create, review, and maintain microservices, optimizing them for performance, stability, security, and scalability.

• Have deep knowledge of PHP (preferably Symfony) and experience or interest in Golang, Node.js;
• Know how SQL and NoSQL databases work and how to write optimized queries and debug them if needed;
• Have practical experience with several technologies from our stack: Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, MySQL clusters, GitLab CI, Redis, and automated testing;
• Be able to guide technical decisions, review designs and code, mentor other developers, and help the team maintain high engineering standards;
• Communicate clearly, take ownership, and enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow; previous formal team-lead experience is welcome but not required;

Nice to have

• Previous experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating developers, formally or informally
• Any experience with DevOps practices (deployment pipelines, automation, etc.);
• Familiarity with front-end technologies and frameworks (e. g. TypeScript, React, etc.).