Backend Engineering Lead

Job Description

Reward Gateway|Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments for people at work, connecting 52 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients. Our shared missions of ‘Making the World a Better Place to Work” and ‘Enriching connections, For good’ guide our actions and chart a sustainable path to a better future.

Due to growth and expansion, an opportunity has become available for a Backend Engineering Lead. In this position, you'll participate in design reviews, recommend improvements, and work with the teams to develop, deliver, and maintain platform improvements.

We have a range of React and React Native apps, bots, and extensions built with GraphQL and Typescript. These talk to our PHP and Python services running on Kubernetes and Docker in Amazon Web Services. We use SQL, Redshift, and MySQL for data - and have a few caching solutions too.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Proficiency: Proficient in PHP with experience using relevant libraries and frameworks.
Scalability and Performance Optimization: Experience developing large-scale systems to handle high volumes of user interactions.
System Architecture: Experience in designing and architecting scalable, modular, and maintainable systems.
Leadership and Team Management: Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and driving the team toward project goals. Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams.
Defining, interpreting, and developing software to written requirements and technical specifications
Write clean, well-designed code, following coding standards and best practices
Working with globally distributed and multi-disciplinary teams

Skills

8+ years experience as a Backend Engineer with a minimum of 3+ years experience in a technical leadership role
Experience with PHP is required
Experience with OOP concepts and SOLID principles
Experience with Unit and Integration testing
Experience with design patterns
A good understanding of building and operating cloud-based microservices
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills

The Interview Process

Online interview with the Senior Talent Partner and an Engineering Manager. This should last no longer than 30 minutes.
Final video interview of 75 minutes that will consist of 3 stages. This includes: 50 minutes to discuss your experience and technical abilities; 15 minutes to review and discuss a coding exercise; 10 minutes to ask questions you may have

Be comfortable. Be you.
At Reward Gateway, we want all of our employees to feel comfortable bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, as we truly believe that diversity drives innovation. Express yourself, join our community and help us Make the World a Better Place to Work.

We hire BETTER.
From perks to people, our BETTER approach to hiring earns us more trust, happier people and more world-class talent that help us to make the world a better place to work. Find out more about Reward Gateways approach to benefits, equality, talent, technology, empathy and what you’ll get in return for joining our Mission at rg.co/lifeatrg.

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