Payments Systems Team Lead — PHP Engineer (Remote)

airSlate; Poland; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Flexible working hours

Learning budget

Job summary

airSlate is seeking a Team Lead PHP Engineer to join the Payments Systems core team. You will design and implement payment experiments, integrate new gateways, and optimize systems affecting millions of users' experiences.

The role requires 6+ years backend experience, 1–2+ years leading a small team, strong PHP (Yii2/Laravel), SQL databases, Git, Docker, and English proficiency; Ukrainian or Russian fluency is a bonus. You will mentor teammates and collaborate with Product and Growth.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend development experience.
• 1–2+ years leading or mentoring a small team.
• Strong PHP skills with a modern framework (Yii2 and/or Laravel).
• Relational databases (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL).
• Git and Docker expertise.
• Software architecture design and testing discipline on high-load projects.
• Task estimation, decomposition, and prioritization against business goals.
• Cross-functional stakeholder communication — ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

• Develop the payments and billing codebase and contribute to its technical direction.
• Lead gateway integrations end-to-end: scope, build, analyze, deliver a verdict.
• Optimize existing payment systems for reliability, performance, and security.
• Lead people: run 1:1s and PDPs, mentor, keep the team aligned and resilient.
• Maintain production payments and troubleshoot issues as part of an on-duty rotation.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Growth on payment initiatives.
• Use AI-assisted development in daily work.

Skills

Backend development

Team leadership

PHP

English communication

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Ukrainian/Russian language

Tools

Git

Docker

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Job description

airSlate is seeking a Team Lead PHP Engineer to join the Payments Systems core team. You will design and implement payment experiments, integrate new gateways, and optimize systems affecting millions of users' experiences.

The role requires 6+ years backend experience, 1–2+ years leading a small team, strong PHP (Yii2/Laravel), SQL databases, Git, Docker, and English proficiency; Ukrainian or Russian fluency is a bonus. You will mentor teammates and collaborate with Product and Growth.