Team Lead, PHP

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🕒 July 27

🌐 Czechia, Serbia, +4 more countries – Remote

🇨🇿 Czechia – Remote 🇷🇸 Serbia – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan – Remote 🇦🇲 Armenia – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 37%

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Talentgrator

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🎲 Gambling

Recruitment • HR Tech • Gambling

Talentgrator is a recruitment agency specializing in IT and the iGaming (online gambling/entertainment) sector. It operates a talent marketplace and hiring platform that connects companies and candidates—offering job browsing, vacancy posting, an integrated messaging system, one-click applications, and a database of 30,000+ talents. The site highlights fast matches (300+ weekly), privacy for reviewers in the gambling industry, and tools to streamline hiring for employers and job search for candidates.

📋 Description

• Build, grow, and develop a team of Senior PHP Engineers. • Participate in hiring and conduct in-depth technical and architectural interviews. • Design effective onboarding programs for experienced engineers. • Drive engagement, motivation, and long-term retention of key talent. • Conduct regular 1-on-1 meetings, performance reviews, and career development discussions. • Facilitate architectural discussions and guide technical decision-making. • Help senior engineers reach consensus on complex technical challenges. • Promote a culture of engineering autonomy, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Maintain high standards for code quality, software design, and engineering practices. • Establish and optimize development processes using Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban). • Support task decomposition, estimation, planning, and execution. • Lead code reviews and ensure adherence to architectural and coding standards. • Drive the design and evolution of scalable backend architectures built with PHP. • Evaluate and introduce architectural patterns, frameworks, and integration approaches. • Ensure long-term maintainability, reliability, and scalability of the platform. • Oversee database design and optimization for high-throughput environments. • Improve performance of MySQL-based systems handling thousands of queries per second. • Design and support analytical integrations using ClickHouse. • Design reliable asynchronous processing solutions using Apache Kafka. • Lead the implementation of event-driven communication between services. • Own service stability and production reliability. • Drive monitoring and observability initiatives using Prometheus and Grafana. • Lead incident response activities and coordinate root cause analysis. • Establish post-mortem practices and continuous improvement processes. • Partner with Product Owners, DevOps Engineers, QA teams, and other Team Leads. • Align engineering priorities with business objectives and delivery goals. • Ensure effective communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a Team Lead or Tech Lead managing PHP engineering teams. • Proven experience hiring, mentoring, and leading Senior Engineers. • Strong people management skills with a coaching and servant leadership mindset. • Ability to build a peer-to-peer culture without micromanagement. • 6+ years of commercial PHP development experience. • Expert knowledge of PHP 8.x and modern backend development practices. • Deep understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, design patterns, and software architecture. • Strong experience with Symfony and/or Laravel. • Advanced knowledge of MySQL, including: • - Query optimization • - Indexing strategies • - Replication • - Performance tuning • - Concurrency and lock optimization • Experience working with Redis. • Experience with ClickHouse or other analytical databases. • Strong practical experience with Apache Kafka. • Good understanding of: • - CI/CD pipelines • - Docker • - Kubernetes • - Linux environments • - Networking fundamentals • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. • Strong facilitation and conflict-resolution abilities. • Experience conducting performance reviews and mentoring engineers. • Ability to translate business goals into actionable engineering initiatives. • PHP 8.x • Symfony / Laravel • MySQL • Redis • Apache Kafka • ClickHouse • Docker • Kubernetes • Prometheus • Grafana

🏖️ Benefits

• 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly • Flexible start to the workday • Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist • Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events • Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities • Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support