Lead Software Developer - PHP

Targeted Talent; Vancouver, Quebec, San Juan de Terranova, Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial solutions company is seeking a Technical Lead to guide the payments team responsible for high-volume credit card transactions. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in development, especially with PHP/Laravel, and demonstrate leadership capabilities. Responsibilities include scaling the engineering team, maintaining multiple systems, and integrating new technologies. A bachelor's degree or relevant experience is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant work experience.
• 8-10 years experience in development.
• 2+ years experience in a lead or senior role.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and lead our engineering team.
• Maintain and coordinate multiple moving pieces.
• Evaluate, detail, and integrate new technologies and systems.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

MySQL

Docker

Domain-Driven Design

API development

GIT

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Docker

Symphony

Memcache

Redis

Elasticsearch

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 experts to push the boundary of payment processing beyond traditional Fintech concepts.

We are looking for a Technical Lead to guide our payments team, which operates systems responsible for processing all company-wide credit card transactions.

What you'll be doing:

• Build, scale, and lead our engineering team
• Maintain and coordinate multiple moving pieces
• Evaluate, detail, 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:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant work experience
• 8-10 years experience in development
• 2+ years experience in a lead or senior role, ready for the next step
• Very familiar with PHP/Laravel/Lumen/MySQL
• Self-driven, team-conscious, perfectionist willing to evolve, methodical, eager to learn and share, and proactive in getting things done

Nice Haves:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science
• Hands-on experience with Docker development environments
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design
• Experience with system monitoring and high-availability systems
• Knowledge of SOA or Microservice Architectures
• Familiarity with Symphony, Docker, Memcache, Redis, Elasticsearch
• Proficiency with GIT and good programming principles
• Experience with caching, storage, and queues at different layers
• Experience in high-volume environments
• API development experience
• Experience with Ads/Marketing platforms