Own the architecture and technical direction of the content processing pipeline
upload API, Camunda BPMN workflows, admin panel, and supporting services
Lead system design for new features and complex changes; create and maintain architecture documentation and ADRs
Drive code quality, review standards, and engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, code style, operational readiness)
Lead technical incident response; write post-mortems with clear root causes and follow-up actions
Identify and manage technical debt
maintain a prioritized backlog and advocate for regular capacity to address it
Translate product requirements into technical solutions, milestones, and well-decomposed tasks
Mentor engineers through design sessions, pair programming, and code reviews; reduce key-person risk by spreading knowledge across the team
Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for team-owned services; ensure sufficient logging, metrics, and alerting are in place
Coordinate technical dependencies with other teams (Content Serving, Billing, UGC, DevOps); represent the team in architecture syncs and design reviews
Evaluate and recommend technologies, patterns, and tools; pilot new approaches where they bring clear benefit

4+ years of backend software engineering experience with PHP, including demonstrated technical leadership (leading design, mentoring engineers, owning architecture)
Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB or similar)
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
Proficiency in one or more additional languages: Go, Python, Java, or C++
Experience designing and evolving backend architectures
APIs, data flows, service decomposition
Strong understanding of testing practices (unit, integration, E2E) and CI/CD pipelines
Ability to communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and designs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
English B1+ (written and verbal communication)

Lead Backend Developer, PHP

Key skills