Team Lead (PHP / Laravel)

Responsibilities:

• Develop projects from scratch or maintain existing ones (ranging from microservices to platforms with millions of users)
• Optimise current functionality – we always strive for perfection
• Ensure maximum performance and scalability: code refactoring, library updates, index improvements, call optimisations, and even rewriting the framework core are part of our routine
• Deliver fast and high-quality results – plan architecture with the future in mind and write clean, maintainable code
• Share technical expertise with the team and benefit from their support in your professional growth

• Identify and propose the best approaches to solving tasks

   

Requirements:

• Minimum 2 year of experience in a team lead role
• PHP – preferably version 7.4 or higher
• Deep knowledge of Laravel: understanding its internal workings, dependency injection (DI), the lifecycle of service providers, and the core of both HTTP and console
• MySQL 5.7–8: experience with transactions and high-load systems
• Proficiency with version control systems like Git/GitHub and working with GitHub Flow
• Experience with UNIX systems, especially Ubuntu (basic experience with Nginx, PHP-FPM, Crontab, MySQL, NPM)
• Experience with APIs: integrating any third-party APIs and building your own

• Experience working with payment systems

   

Nice to Have:

• Full-stack application security: proper server configuration, protection against XSS and CSRF, prevention of brute-force attacks and abuse of free features (e.g., farming multi-accounts or automating user actions)
• Strong understanding of data integrity: transaction management, isolation levels, and nested transactions
• Architecture planning: designing the codebase and database structure, breaking down applications into microservices, and organising effective communication between them
• Experience with Redis as both a cache and a data store, including use as a Pub/Sub system between PHP and NodeJS/Swoole
• Knowledge of and ability to work with NodeJS and Socket.io
• Experience with server administration (Debian-based systems), Docker, and Ansible
• Experience with AWS and DigitalOcean
• Working with charts and internal analytics based on MySQL/Redis data (nested queries, multi-table selections), and creating admin panels to monitor, optimise, and improve the product
• Experience working with queues such as RabbitMQ
• Frontend knowledge: JavaScript (ES6+), understanding of reactive applications, VueJS, TypeScript, and CSS preprocessors (SCSS, LESS)