Position: Senior PHP Team Lead Position
Company: Blend
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**BLEND** is empowering businesses to become locally relevant.
Supporting 120 languages in a wide range of industries, by thousands of active freelancers worldwide.

We’re looking for strong and passionate Team Leader to own a team of experienced developers and to build challenging applications for high-throughput environment.

The Team Leader will take ownership of the Full development cycle including development, testing and monitoring.

**What will you do?**

- You will OWN and lead a team of up to 8 engineers, including backend, frontend and QA

- You will OWN the development process independently, from requirement to production.

- You will CULTIVATE an environment of high productivity, collaboration, and energy.

- You will SOLVE technical and architectural challenges, play a key role in building it right!

- You will BUILD using Scrum and DELIVER (CI/CD) scalable software.

- You will MONITOR and improve development standards, procedures, and best practices.

**Requirements:**

- Experienced team leader - 2+ years.

- 5+ years of hands-on backend PHP development, using MySQL and MongoDB.

- Experience with Scrum and CI/CD methodologies.

- Experience using Docker, Jenkins, Kibana, AWS – S3, SNS, ECS, RabbitMQ (or similar).

- Experience with delivering high-scale / high-traffic software.

- Familiar with UI best practices and ReactJS.

- Amazing leadership skills, Peoples’ person, communicative, and positive attitude.

- Strong problem-solving skills.

- English – Upper-intermediate (at least).

**We offer:**

- Friendly and positive team where everyone's opinion is important, and initiative is welcomed.

- Professional learning and skills development.

- Amazing office near metro Livoberezhna.

**Our Stack:**

- PHP 7, MySQL, ReactJS, AWS, Docker.

- Serving ~7M requests per day with ultra-low latency.

- Delivering code several times per day.