Team Lead PHP (Highload / iGaming)

Team Lead PHP position in an iGaming company with 10 years history. Lead a team of Senior PHP engineers, develop highload platform (tens of thousands RPS and terabytes of data daily). Remote, outside RF.

Responsibilities: - Manage a team: hire, grow and mentor a team of Senior PHP engineers. Build onboarding, conduct 1-on-1s, performance reviews, and care about long-term motivation. - Drive architecture: make key architectural decisions, design scalable solutions in PHP, maintain high engineering standards (deep code review). - Responsible for Delivery: build and optimize processes according to Agile (Scrum/Kanban), help the team with decomposition, estimation, and task planning. - Manage Highload and Data: design databases for high loads, profile and optimize complex MySQL queries (thousands of RPS), support analytics in ClickHouse. - Develop Event-Driven Architecture (EDA): design asynchronous interaction between microservices based on Apache Kafka. - Ensure Reliability: be responsible for production stability, drive monitoring initiatives (Prometheus, Grafana), manage incident analysis and conduct post-mortems.

Ideal candidate: - Proven experience of at least 2 years as Team Lead or Tech Lead (managing PHP team, experience in hiring and development of Senior engineers, servant leadership mindset). - Writes in PHP for at least 6 years (expert knowledge of PHP 8.x, OOP, SOLID, design patterns). - Excellent knowledge of Symfony and/or Laravel ecosystem. - Understands how databases work under the hood: advanced level of MySQL (replication, indexes, locks, performance tuning and concurrent access). - Confident with Redis and real production experience with Apache Kafka and ClickHouse. - Solid hands-on experience with infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Linux. - Experience with Go is a plus.

Conditions: - Format: 100% remote outside Russia, synchronization with Prague time (CET). - Location: work from anywhere in the world (except Russia). - Employment type: B2B (self-employed). - Salary: fixed in euros, negotiable based on your expectations. - Vacation and health: 20 working days of paid leave, 3 sick days per year without medical certificates, plus paid sick leave (60%).