Team lead, PHP developer

Team lead, PHP developer 

Employee contract / Full time / Long term

Work schedule: Remote/Hybrid (a few days per week in the office in Kyiv)  

EUROPA business center, 103 Stolychne Highway, building 1, Kyiv.

Our company is a leader in the express delivery market in Ukraine and Europe, providing fast, convenient, and reliable delivery services for documents, parcels, and cargo to any point in the country.

Project: Develop and maintain PHP services for accounting and electronic document management systems with 10k+ users.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of PHP development experience, experience with other programming languages (Go, JS, Python)
• Strong experience working with databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Experience working with message brokers (RabbitMQ or others)
• Proficient with Docker
• Knowledge of design patterns and ability to optimize code
• Experience with APIs (REST, RPC, SOAP)
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team, experience in mentoring/managing development teams
• Experience with CI/CD
• Experience in managing development teams

Optional requirements:

• Laravel framework
• Experience with ElasticSearch
• Experience in selecting tools/services based on multiple criteria (scalability, cost, fault tolerance, etc.) for use in projects
• Knowledge of basic tools for collecting system metrics, monitoring, and logging
• Memcached (or Redis)
• Jira
• Gitlab \ version control system
• Experience in logistics

Responsibilities:

• Management of backend development teams:
  – Team scaling – hiring, onboarding, mentoring 
  – Monitoring compliance with processes related to job performance by employees 
  – Evaluating team performance
• Formation and control of development and task estimation processes
• Interaction with other team members, including frontend developers, QA, BA, and designers, to ensure successful project completion.
• Participation in web application development, project analysis, task decomposition
• Setting up development tools, process automation

We offer:
– Hybrid, with a couple of days in the Kyiv office.
– Monday to Friday, approximately 9–18;
– Formal employment under Ukrainian labor legislation;
– 26 calendar days of vacation and paid sick leave;
– Compensation reviews.