Backend Team Lead (Symfony)
Core
Lead a backend engineering team building scalable web services and microservices for large North American partners using PHP and Golang.
Role type
Senior IC backend team lead (PHP/Symfony/Golang)
Builds
Scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices
Domain
IT marketing platforms, web engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
PHP (Symfony), Golang, microservices architecture, SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Git, OOP, design patterns, automated testing, messaging systems (RabbitMQ/Kafka)
Preferred skills
Agile practices, ClickUp, hiring and onboarding, performance optimization, code review
Technologies
Symfony, Golang, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Kafka, ClickUp
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor a team of backend developers, define and maintain coding standards and architectural guidelines, develop and maintain backend services, optimize and refactor existing services, improve development workflows and CI/CD practices, participate in hiring and onboarding
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities