Remote Position
[Remote] Lead Software Engineer-Backend (PHP)
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Commerce is hiring a Lead Software Engineer - Backend for its Feedonomics Engineering team. The role defines technical vision and leads the design, delivery, and scaling of core infrastructure and services for a data-intensive SaaS platform.
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision to advance the domain and engage with Staff Engineers to deliver projects aligned to the platform vision
- Design and implement high-quality solutions to the most complex and ambiguous problems in the domain, with focus on scalability and high availability
- Own end-to-end technical project execution, including scoping, sequencing, forecasting ECDs, and driving delivery towards deadlines
- Participate in RFCs and architectural discussions, evaluating and recommending tools, technologies, and processes that solve concrete business problems
- Own and represent deep SME across complex and sophisticated areas, guiding design decisions and influencing technical direction
- Proactively monitor the state of the team's services and recommend optimizations based on data
- Advocate for practices and implement tooling to enable others, leveraging automation to enhance the robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment
- Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems, including conducting post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
- Act as a dedicated mentor to multiple mentees, providing insightful feedback about teammates to help them excel
- Drive team-level education and documentation practices to foster a culture of shared learning
- Proactively identify and build important relationships with partner teams to ensure cross-functional alignment
Skills
- 7+ years of programming experience in backend languages
- Strong experience with PHP is required (Experience with Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language is a bonus)
- Extensive experience with MySQL or a similar technology , paired with a strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
- Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, gRPC, etc) and Distributed Systems
- Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
- Experience in Caching technologies (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
- Solid understanding of Linux operating systems and experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S
- BS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- DevOps experience is highly preferred
- Experience with Cloud solutions (GCP highly preferred)
- Experience with Full-stack observability frameworks and tools (OTel highly preferred)
Benefits
- Fully remote role
- May also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies.
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