Lead Backend Software Engineer (PHP)

Commerce is hiring a Lead Backend Software Engineer to join Feedonomics’ remote Engineering team. The role defines technical direction and leads delivery of scalable, high-availability backend infrastructure and services for a data-intensive SaaS platform.

Responsibilities:

• Define the technical vision to advance the domain and engage with Staff Engineers to deliver projects aligned to the platform vision
• Design and implement high-quality solutions to the most complex and ambiguous problems in the domain, with focus on scalability and high availability
• Own end-to-end technical project execution, including scoping, sequencing, forecasting ECDs, and driving delivery towards deadlines
• Participate in RFCs and architectural discussions, evaluating and recommending tools, technologies, and processes that solve concrete business problems
• Own and represent deep SME across complex and sophisticated areas, guiding design decisions and influencing technical direction
• Proactively monitor the state of the team's services and recommend optimizations based on data
• Advocate for practices and implement tooling to enable others, leveraging automation to enhance the robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment
• Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems, including conducting post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
• Act as a dedicated mentor to multiple mentees, providing insightful feedback about teammates to help them excel
• Drive team-level education and documentation practices to foster a culture of shared learning
• Proactively identify and build important relationships with partner teams to ensure cross-functional alignment

Requirements:

• 7+ years of programming experience in backend languages
• Strong experience with PHP is required
• Extensive experience with MySQL or a similar technology , paired with a strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
• Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, gRPC, etc) and Distributed Systems
• Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
• Experience in Caching technologies (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
• Solid understanding of Linux operating systems and experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S
• BS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience with Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language is a bonus
• DevOps experience is highly preferred
• Experience with Cloud solutions
• GCP highly preferred
• Experience with Full-stack observability frameworks and tools
• OTel highly preferred