Remote Backend Tech Lead (Golang/PHP) - Flexible Hours

Infomediji; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote‑first culture

Flexible working hours

Unlimited DeoVR Premium access

Job summary

DeoVR is seeking a Lead Backend Developer for its remote US-based team. You will lead the Billing team while staying hands-on, shaping system design, and driving engineering excellence across services.

Ideal candidates bring 4+ years of backend experience with Go or PHP, strong API design skills, and a track record in CI/CD, testing, and architectural leadership. This is a fully remote contract role offering flexible hours.

Qualifications

• 4+ years backend software engineering experience with Golang or PHP.
• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB or similar).
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar).
• Production experience with Golang.
• Designing and evolving backend architectures - APIs, data flows, service decomposition.
• Strong testing practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to communicate trade-offs clearly to engineers and stakeholders.
• English level at least B1+ (written and verbal).

Responsibilities

• Lead system design for new features and complex changes.
• Create and maintain architecture documentation and ADRs.
• Drive code quality, review standards, and engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, code style, operational readiness).
• Lead technical incident response; write post-mortems with root causes and follow-ups.
• Identify and manage technical debt with a prioritized backlog.
• Translate product requirements into technical solutions, milestones, and tasks.
• Mentor engineers through design sessions, pair programming, and code reviews.
• Define SLIs/SLOs for team services; ensure logging, metrics, and alerts.
• Coordinate dependencies with Content Serving, Processing, UGC, DevOps; participate in architecture reviews.
• Evaluate technologies and pilot beneficial approaches.

Skills

Backend leadership

Golang

PHP

API design

CI/CD

Unit/integration tests

Stakeholder comms

English B1+

Tools

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

Redis

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

DeoVR is seeking a Lead Backend Developer for its remote US-based team. You will lead the Billing team while staying hands-on, shaping system design, and driving engineering excellence across services.

Ideal candidates bring 4+ years of backend experience with Go or PHP, strong API design skills, and a track record in CI/CD, testing, and architectural leadership. This is a fully remote contract role offering flexible hours.