Lead PHP Engineer, Payments & Fintech (Remote)

airSlate; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote/hybrid work option

Flexible working environment

Job summary

airSlate is seeking a Team Lead PHP Engineer to join the Payments Systems core team. You will integrate new payment gateways, run experiments, and maintain systems powering millions of user payments, ensuring secure and seamless transactions.

The role requires 6+ years backend experience with PHP and experience leading a small team. You will work on experiments, gateway integrations, and contribute to reliability, performance, and security of payment systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years backend development experience; 1–2+ years leading or mentoring a small team (tech lead / team lead)
• Strong PHP skills with a modern framework (Yii2 and/or Laravel)
• Relational databases (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL)
• Git and Docker expertise

Responsibilities

• Develop the payments and billing codebase and contribute to its technical direction
• Take experiments and 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 your daily work

Skills

PHP

Yii2

Laravel

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Git

Docker

English

Tools

Kubernetes

GitOps

ArgoCD

CI/CD

Go

Job description

airSlate is seeking a Team Lead PHP Engineer to join the Payments Systems core team. You will integrate new payment gateways, run experiments, and maintain systems powering millions of user payments, ensuring secure and seamless transactions.

The role requires 6+ years backend experience with PHP and experience leading a small team. You will work on experiments, gateway integrations, and contribute to reliability, performance, and security of payment systems.