Lead Engineer - PHP
Tamara
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leadership: Inspire and motivate a team of 5 or more engineers. Set the direction by aligning the team goals with the company vision and strategy. Build a healthy environment of trust and a strong sense of ownership and accountability. You work closely together with the Product Owner to ensure the team's success.
- People Development: Develop talent through ongoing coaching, mentoring and challenging. Make sure your team has the right skill sets to accomplish its goals. Give candid feedback frequently. Assess and manage the performance of team members. Play a key role in helping us continue to attract, develop and retain great engineering talent.
- Technical Ownership: Lead technical discovery of future work and guide technical decision-making. Monitor technical health metrics and ensure the right balance between delivery and technical excellence.
- Project Management: Help the team to break down complex topics into smaller, manageable tasks in collaboration with Product and UX. Manage internal and external stakeholders' expectations, and communicate relevant information in a timely manner. Coordinate work with team-external dependencies. Identify, manage and communicate risks. Own the project management process of the team, but leave room for people to grow.
- Team Performance: Deliver on commitments. Ensure alignment of the team's objectives with the higher-level organizational goals. Measure performance indicators and continuously improve the effectiveness of your team.
- Collaborate with Peers: Work closely together and align with other Squad Leads and Engineering Managers and Architecture board.
- You have at least 2 years of experience managing one engineering team of more than 5 people
- You have a very good technical background in software development with:
- Good experience with PHP7,8 and Symfony or Laravel framework
- Strong experience with OOP
- MySQL and NoSQL
- Messaging systems like RabbitMQ/Kafka
- Container orchestration with K8S
- Cloud services such as AWS/GPC/OCI
- CI/CD
- Testing (UT/Integration/Load test)
- You have the motivation to work in a fast-grow startup environment
- Good understanding of AGILE/SCRUM methodology
- Fintech/eCommerce experience is a plus
- Experience with Java/Golang is a plus