Fullstack Team Lead (PHP)

About Smartness

We are Smartness, and we support small and medium-sized accommodation providers with solutions to help them fight back against the huge hotel chains. We started in 2020 by providing these companies with a dynamic pricing solution which increase revenue by on average 30%. Last year, we were named one of Italy’s top start-ups, and are the fastest growing B2B SaaS company in the accommodation space in both revenue and number of clients. Today we are working with over 4000 companies in over 20 countries, and steadily growing. Yet, this is only the start of our journey.
Beyond Smartpricing, we've launched a suite of products over the past few years that is growing by more than 10% month-over-month. Our goal is to become one of the leading global players in our industry.

What Will You Do?

Our technology team is building a platform of solutions that will help accommodation providers optimise the way they run their business. We are investing a lot in R&D with the intention to double the amount of products we host on our platform by the end of the year, and as such are expanding our engineering team.

We are looking for a proven and experienced PHP Backend Team Lead to join us on our exciting journey. You will be dedicated to one of our product teams, working hands-on on architectural design, estimations and implementation. You will also be working closely as part of a cross functional team and will be the main interface with the engineering lead in planning and managing. Lastly, you will provide strong people leadership to a team of engineers, providing performance reviews, supporting them with technical topics and helping them develop their career.

You will be responsible for:

• Providing hands on support: working on architecture design, estimations, and implementations with test coverage.

• People Management: being the local tech leader for a team of engineers. Perform 1:1 performance reviews and help in their career growth.

• Collaborating cross-functionally: working in scrum with a cross functional team, with a PM, QA engineer and designer and being the interface between your team and the engineering lead on all topics related to management and planning

What Are We Looking For?

• Proven experience as a PHP Backend Developer in a start-up or scale-up environment

• Experience as a people manager, or a strong desire to become a people manager

• In depth knowledge of PHP (Laravel)

• Knowledge of Javascript (focus on Vue.js)

• Knowledge of Docker and k8s

• Exposure to CI/CD tools (e.g. Jenkins, Circle CI)

• Knowledge of databases such as Postgres and Cassandra

• Experience with Kafka and distributed applications (microservices)

What do we offer?

We are on the cusp of an extremely exciting and rewarding journey. This means we will be working hard to tackle complicated challenges as we build a business with significant potential for the future. We will compensate you with a competitive salary that conforms to the market and your experience.

Smartness is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We want sincerity, but always with respect for others and their ideas. We don’t discriminate based on race or ethnic origin, colour, or whether or not you consider yourself to have a disability. Neither will your age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, or political opinions play a part in your application with us.

Before you apply

If you're reading this, it means you're genuinely interested, and that excites us! Here's what you need to know:

• We're highly driven and set our goals higher than most, pushing boundaries others may deem impossible.
• We work much harder than most companies out there.
• Every day, we step out of our comfort zones, fueling rapid growth and learning, even though it might come with its stress.
• We hold ourselves and our team to the highest standards of excellence and culture.
• Should we feel that this role isn't the right match for you, for the benefit of both parties, we may need to part ways.