Lead Backend Engineer (PHP) - Remote, Scale & Mentor

Commerce; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 182,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Commerce is a remote-first company seeking a Lead Software Engineer - Backend to join the fully remote Engineering team at Feedonomics. You will define technical direction, design scalable backend services, and mentor engineers while delivering high-performance SaaS components.

You will collaborate across teams, own end-to-end delivery, and drive CI/CD improvements, cloud and observability practices, ensuring reliability and rapid delivery for a data-intensive platform.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of programming experience in backend languages.
• Strong experience with PHP is required.
• Extensive experience with MySQL and database design.
• Understanding of distributed systems and communication protocols (TCP, gRPC).
• Experience with caching technologies (e.g., Redis).
• Solid Linux and CI/CD/automation knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision for the domain and align with platform goals.
• Design and implement scalable, high-availability backend solutions.

Skills

Backend development

PHP

MySQL

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Linux

Education

BS or higher in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Job description

Commerce is a remote-first company seeking a Lead Software Engineer - Backend to join the fully remote Engineering team at Feedonomics. You will define technical direction, design scalable backend services, and mentor engineers while delivering high-performance SaaS components.

You will collaborate across teams, own end-to-end delivery, and drive CI/CD improvements, cloud and observability practices, ensuring reliability and rapid delivery for a data-intensive platform.