PHP Team Lead

🕒 July 27

🇧🇪 Belgium – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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eCarsTrade

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🚘 Automotive

🏪 Marketplace

🤝 B2B

Automotive • Marketplace • B2B

eCarsTrade is an online European car auction and used-vehicle marketplace focused on professional buyers (dealers and traders). The platform lists large volumes of ex-lease, post-rental and trade-in vehicles from European sources, offers both timed auctions and fixed-price sales, and provides detailed vehicle photos, inspection/appraisal reports, transparent fixed commissions, multilingual support, delivery/logistics across the EU (and export assistance), and data-driven pricing/bid recommendations. It emphasizes high-quality verified stock, a streamlined bidding/purchase flow, and after-sales support for cross-border transactions.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of developers: plan their work, manage timelines and ensure code quality, improve development processes, mentor engineers. • Manage technical debt across owned services, take ownership of technology decisions. • Lead efforts to optimize backend performance, reliability, and scalability. Apply best practices and modern technologies to achieve these goals. • Collaborate closely with stakeholders, product managers, frontend, ML developers and other teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality solutions. • Design, develop and enhance backend applications using PHP to support eCarsTrade's auction platform. • Utilize Docker for containerization and orchestration, ensuring seamless deployment and scalability. • Implement CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and delivery processes, ensuring rapid and reliable releases. • Maintain a customer-centric approach, focusing on delivering value-added features and enhancements that meet the needs of our users.

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in PHP development. • 2+ years of team leadership experience • Leadership qualities, including the ability to inspire and motivate team members, drive technical initiatives, and lead by example. • Proficiency in Docker for containerization and deployment of applications. • Experience with implementing and optimizing queues for background processing of tasks. • Solid understanding of scaling principles for backend systems and infrastructure. • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with a passion for writing clean, efficient code. • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment. • Proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions on schedule and within budget. • Experience with CI/CD principles and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar. • Proficiency in both English and Russian is mandatory.

🏖️ Benefits

• Full remote position under a B2B contract • Multicultural, dynamic international team • Competitive salary • Fast-growing company with startup spirit and growth opportunities • Chance to shape the future of digital automotive trading