Position: Tech Lead PHP Developer
Company: RQ Team
Category: PHP
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

BigWallet is a European FinTech project that develops an online banking platform. We use the API-based stack where the underlying infrastructure is represented by licensed and regulated banks while a BaaS (Bank-as-a-Service) acts as the middleware. For more information about the services we provide, please visit our website https://bigwallet.com/

Requirements:
• Tech leading experience more than 2 years;
• Strong programming background in PHP 7+;
• Understanding of software engineering fundamentals (OOP, design patterns, DDD, SOLID, REST API design);
• Development experience for both mobile and desktop.
• Experience in development of complex server applications;
• Strong experience with Symfony framework;
• Experience in PostgreSQL DB design and optimization;
• Experience with CI/CD, Jenkins;
• Understanding of Application security;
• Сommercial experience with - ELK stack.

Will be a plus:
• English speaking;
• Сommercial experience with Phalcon framework;
• Understanding the design principles of distributed applications, including those based on messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc...)

Responsibilities:
• Leading the project (from technical gathering project requirements stage through to implementation);
• Development of a product with PHP;
• Database architecture creation, database optimization, data structuring;
• Code review and code quality control;
• Participate in support activities (incl. support issues processing and fixing);
• Oversee the technologies, tools, and techniques used within the team;
• Gain enough business knowledge to be able to actively participate in designing software solutions;
• Management and proactive collaboration with teammates, mentoring junior PHP developer;
• Work/collaborate with various global cross-functional teams of Product Managers/Tech Leads to understand the requirements;
• Plan development sprints with the product owner
• Document the working systems and prepare design documentation;
• Ensure that projects are accurately estimated and delivered to schedule.

We offer:
• Work in a fast-growing company;
• Friendly team;
• Medical insurance;
• Flexible working hours;
• Paid vacation and sick leaves;
• Mentoring;
• Career and professional growth;
• Participating in meet-ups, conferences and other professional events;
• Lunches, fruits, sweets, coffee, tea in the office.