Lead PHP Engineer – Payments & Fintech (Remote)

airSlate Inc.; Town of Poland (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Stock options

Professional growth

Job summary

airSlate is seeking a Team Lead PHP Engineer to join the Payments Systems core team. You will design, implement, and optimize payment workflows, integrate new gateways, and ensure secure, scalable transactions for millions of users.

You will lead a small team, mentor engineers, run experiments, and collaborate with Product and Growth. The role requires 6+ years of backend experience with PHP (Yii2/Laravel), strong DB skills, and proficiency with Git, Docker, and modern architecture.

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 and ownership
• Professional English for daily collaboration
• Fluency in Ukrainian or Russian

Responsibilities

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

Skills

PHP backend

Yii2/Laravel

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Git & Docker

Team leadership

English proficiency

Ukrainian or Russian

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps / ArgoCD

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Go

Job description

airSlate is seeking a Team Lead PHP Engineer to join the Payments Systems core team. You will design, implement, and optimize payment workflows, integrate new gateways, and ensure secure, scalable transactions for millions of users.

You will lead a small team, mentor engineers, run experiments, and collaborate with Product and Growth. The role requires 6+ years of backend experience with PHP (Yii2/Laravel), strong DB skills, and proficiency with Git, Docker, and modern architecture.