Job Description

Backend Engineering Lead

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Sofia/Plovdiv

Compensation: €58,000 - €60,000 / year

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.

An opportunity has become available for a Backend Engineering Lead. In this position, you'll ensure delivery of solutions that align with business and user objectives. You'll lead a team and participate in design reviews, recommend improvements, and work with the teams to develop, deliver, and maintain platform improvements.

Key Responsibilities

Security

• Drive a security-first culture by defining and enforcing security protocols
• Lead threat modelling and oversee vulnerability remediation plans
• Track security compliance

Performance and Scalability

• Set platform performance KPIs
• Conduct performance analysis
• Monitoring dashboards
• Guide teams in implementing scalable solutions and optimising system performance

Testing and Quality

• Establish organisation-wide testing standards and ensure adherence through coaching and reviews
• Promote quality ownership within teams

APIs

• Define and enforce API design principles
• Oversee API governance and documentation standards across the team

Maintenance and Optimisation

• Identify areas of technical debt and lead strategic refactoring initiatives
• Track and measure technical debt reduction progress
• Prioritise optimisation projects that improve system health

Frameworks and tooling

• Make strategic decisions on introducing new frameworks and tools
• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide adoption to improve productivity

Architecture

• Lead the transition to microservices/event-driven architecture
• Define architectural patterns and mentor teams on implementation best practices
• Maintain system design documentation and Architecture decision records (ADRs)

Documentation and Reporting

• Develop clear documentation guidelines to ensure consistency and quality
• Maintain detailed documentation for complex systems, including architecture diagrams, workflows, and integration points, ensuring accessibility for all stakeholder Implement and manage a structured process for creating incident reports, capturing root causes, and resolutions to drive continuous improvement

Team management

• Set clear objectives, monitor KPIs, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions
• Drive career progression through regular feedback, mentoring and knowledge-sharing to support in identifying growth opportunities

Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:

PLEASE NOTE:
This is a hybrid role that would require presence in our Sofia or Plovdiv office at least twice per week, as agreed.
Salary budget for this role is €58,000 to €60,000 gross per annum. We have a salary transparency policy, which means our budgets are not negotiable.

• Solid and proven experience as a Backend Engineer with a minimum of 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role
• Proven team management and leadership skills
• 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 45 minutes.
• The final video interview of 90 minutes will consist of 3 stages. This includes: 60 minutes to discuss your experience and technical abilities; 20 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.