Lead PHP Engineer — Scalable E-commerce Platform & Search

EPAM Systems Inc; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems in the United States is seeking a Lead PHP Engineer to join the Platform Governance team. You will drive the design and delivery of a resilient indexing pipeline, write scalable PHP code for the search platform, and mentor teammates to adopt best practices.

This role emphasizes performance, data synchronization, Elasticsearch tuning, and on-call responsibilities, impacting thousands of merchants and millions of shoppers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• 1+ years of leadership experience.
• Proficient in PHP and a strongly typed backend language (Java/Scala/Go).
• Cloud experience across AWS/Azure/GCP.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical design and implementation of a more resilient indexing pipeline.
• Write high-quality, scalable PHP code for the search platform and components.
• Provide technical guidance and share best practices with the team.

Skills

PHP

Backend languages(Java/Scala/Go)

Cloud platforms(AWS/Azure/GCP)

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ / Kafka

Leadership

English (B2+)

Tools

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Job description

EPAM Systems in the United States is seeking a Lead PHP Engineer to join the Platform Governance team. You will drive the design and delivery of a resilient indexing pipeline, write scalable PHP code for the search platform, and mentor teammates to adopt best practices.

This role emphasizes performance, data synchronization, Elasticsearch tuning, and on-call responsibilities, impacting thousands of merchants and millions of shoppers worldwide.