Lead Backend Engineer (PHP)

We are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer (PHP) to join our Platform Experience team, where we are responsible for the end-to-end customer journey within the Supermetrics Platform.

You'll have the opportunity to shape our data-driven future and enhance user experiences through:

• End-to-End Platform Experience: Collaborate with a dynamic team to shape and optimize user journeys, driving impactful customer experiences and growth
• Data-Driven Insights: Create engaging tools that empower users with valuable insights to help drive their decision-making
• Innovative Experiences: Play a key role in the development of cutting-edge features, utilizing the latest technologies to enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
• Team Collaboration & Growth: Contribute to fostering a culture of continuous improvement by helping streamline workflows and enhancing team synergy

Your day-to-day work and responsibilities will include:

• Leading the development of new features and functionalities for our customers
• Leading and planning new initiatives and features
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to define technical roadmaps, prioritize features, and estimate development efforts
• Drive and enforce high code quality standards through thorough code reviews, promoting best practices in software development, and ensuring maintainability and scalability.
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, and share knowledge to enhance the team's overall performance and expertise
• Proactively identify and address potential system bottlenecks, improve monitoring and alerting capabilities, and ensure the stability and performance
• Utilizing existing monitoring tools to ensure system stability

Technologies you'll be working with:

• PHP
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Docker
• Git
• OpenSearch
• Grafana
• DataDog
• GCP
• AWS

This role is for you if you have:

• 7+ years of backend experience, including experience with PHP (Core)
• Prior experience as a Tech Lead, demonstrating your ability to guide and mentor a team
• Experience working with API integrations
• A strong commitment to code quality, including experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Proven ability to lead architecture and software design discussions and translate them into actionable plans
• Proven ability to apply software testing principles effectively
• Expertise with security best practices
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Fluent communication in English
• Ability to give effective feedback

Nice to have skills:

• Understanding of monitoring and infra tools and ability to interpret monitoring data using Datadog, OpenSearch and Grafana to track application performance and system metrics.
• Understanding of tools such as GitHub Actions and Kubernetes, to automate and containerize our application and services.

Benefits we offer:

• Competitive compensation package, including equity
• Excellent work equipment and home office allowance for those working in our fully remote locations
• Health care benefits and leisure time insurance
• Annual 1000 euros of personal learning budget
• Sports and wellbeing allowance

Does this sound like your next adventure? Apply now! We'll fill the role as soon as we find the right person.

NOTE! We don't offer B2B contracts.

Join us on our mission to make data a marketing superpower

Supermetrics is a frontrunner in data integration technology, with 15% of global advertising spend reported through our products.

We help marketers turn their data into insights that improve business results and predict the best next step. Our technology streamlines marketing data for over 200,000 businesses through a network of agencies and customers like Shopify, HubSpot, and Nestlé. Since our founding in 2013, we've grown profitably to reach 750K+ users and over 60M€ in annual recurring revenue.

We're a team of 360+ growth-minded people from diverse backgrounds. Together, we make a multicultural, resourceful, and collaborative team.

Supermetrics operates on trust, transparency, and a keen customer focus. Forward-looking and action-oriented, we work hard to raise the bar in our industry. As team players, we help each other and win together.

We're hiring for a diverse, skilled, and collaborative team and building an inclusive workplace where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.

It all started with a Google t-shirt... Read the rest of our growth story at supermetrics.com/about.