PHP Team Lead (Ukraine) Offline

A leading digital marketing company, is looking for an experienced R&D team leader.

 

The role involves both team management and hands-on activities as a backend PHP developer.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

Leadership and Reporting:

 

- Report to the R&D group leader, providing regular updates on team progress, challenges, and opportunities.

 

- Lead and inspire the international R&D team, fostering collaboration and a culture of continuous improvement. (Ukraine, Albania)

 

Project Management:

 

- Oversee the planning, architecture, and execution of projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives defined by the management.

 

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver projects on time and within scope.

 

Technical Leadership and Hands-On Development:

 

- Define and implement the technical architecture for new and existing solutions, provide ongoing support. Translating business requirements into technical ones.

 

- Conduct code reviews and provide technical guidance to team members.

 

- Actively participate in hands-on development tasks, particularly in server side PHP development, database architecture, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end elements.

 

Innovation and Research:

 

- Stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies, driving innovation within the team.

 

- Lead research and development initiatives to enhance our technological capabilities.

 

Requirements:

 

- Proven experience in leading and managing development teams

 

- At least 3 years of hands-on experience as a Web developer with strong PHP knowledge

 

- Expertise in web development technologies, including Laravel, and Docker

 

- Advantage: ReactJS, Node.JS

 

- Deep knowledge of SQL Databases and SQL script optimization

 

- Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools.

 

- Knowledge of bash commands and Linux system

 

- Gitlab + GitFlow

 

- Excellent communication skills with ability to effectively interface with technical and nontechnical staff at all organizational levels

 

- English upper intermediate (B2+)