Lead Software Developer - PHP

Targeted Talent; Kitchener; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Canada is seeking a Technical Lead to guide its payments team responsible for processing credit card transactions. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in development, particularly with PHP, Laravel, and MySQL, as well as leadership experience. This position offers a remote work environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years experience in development.
• 2+ years experience in a lead or senior role.
• Familiarity with PHP, Laravel, Lumen, and MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale and help lead our engineering team.
• Maintain lots of moving pieces.
• Debug production issues across services.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

MySQL

Docker

Domain Driven Design

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Docker

GIT

Elasticsearch

Job description

Job Description

Job Description

Our Client :

Get the opportunity to work remotely on a conglomerate of critical financial payment process microservices that interact together to form one of the largest high availability e-commerce solutions in their market segment. They work with multinational banks, acquirers and financial gurus to push the boundary of payment processing beyond the concepts of traditional Fintech.We are looking for a Technical Lead to guide our payments team which operates systems responsible for processing all our company-wide credit card transactions.

What you'll be doing :

• Build, scale and help lead our engineering team
• Maintain lots of moving pieces
• Evaluate details and integrate new technologies and systems
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

What you'll need to be successful :

Must haves :

• Bachelors degree in computer science or relevant work experience
• 8-10 years experience in development
• 2+ years experience in lead role or in a senior role and ready for the next step
• Very familiar with PHP / Laravel / Lumen / MySQL experience
• Self-driven but team conscientious, desires perfection but is willing evolve in steps to get there, methodical and is not afraid to learn / make mistakes, willing to share and teach and when all fails, likes to get things done

Nice Haves :

• Bachelors degree in computer science
• Hand on experience with Docker development environments
• Domain Driven Design
• System monitoring and high-availability systems
• Knowledge of SOA or Microservice Based Architectures
• Knowledge of Symphony / Docker / Memcache / Redis / Elasticsearch
• Can breathe GIT, strong embracing of good programming principles
• Hands on experience towards the different layers of caching / storage / utilization of queues
• Experience in a high volume environment
• API Development experience
• Ads / Marketing platform experience