Job Description
Lead PHP Engineer - Surveys
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Sofia/Plovdiv
Reporting To: Head of Data
Compensation: €63,000 / year
Reward Gateway|Edenred is a global market leader in benefits and employee engagement. We help our clients and their leaders transform employee experience that will attract, engage, and retain top talent through employee benefits, strategic reward and recognition, well-being, and much more.
Guided by the missions “Making the World a Better Place to Work” and “Enriching connections, for good”, we focus on improving employee engagement and building resilient workplaces that enhance people’s daily lives.
An opportunity has become available for a PHP Engineering Lead to join our engineering organisation. In this role you will guide engineers through complex technical decisions, contribute to design reviews, identify areas for improvement, and help create alignment across teams. You will balance long term technical strategy with the realities of short-term delivery, ensuring decisions are both well informed and practical.
You will manage team performance, support career development, and help engineers grow in confidence and capability. You will also work closely with Heads of Engineering and Product teams to support effective planning and ensure reliable, high-quality delivery across the organisation.
Some of your responsibilities & core duties will include:
Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team
- Monitor individual and team performance and promote accountability
- Support hiring, onboarding and continuous development of engineers
- Drive predictable Agile delivery and support effective planning
Shape and contribute to architecture strategy
- Support the transition toward microservices and event driven patterns
- Maintain clear architectural documentation and architectural decision records
- Participate in architecture reviews and cross team planning
Ensure high-performance and scalable engineering
- Define, measure and report on platform performance KPIs
- Guide teams in designing scalable, resilient backend systems
- Support performance investigations and platform optimisation efforts
Lead API design, governance, and documentation
- Define and champion consistent API design principles
- Oversee the governance of API changes, versioning and documentation quality
- Ensure APIs are discoverable, well-structured and reliable
Drive security excellence
- Establish and maintain a security-first culture across engineering teams
- Lead threat modelling exercises and coordinate vulnerability remediation
Champion quality assurance and testing standards
- Promote shared ownership of quality, encouraging teams to build robust automated testing
- Ensure test coverage, test reliability and continuous improvement of testing practices
Reduce technical debt and drive system optimisation
- Lead refactoring and modernisation initiatives
- Prioritise and track improvements to system health
- Promote best practices in performance tuning, code quality and maintainability
Improve engineering efficiencies through frameworks and tooling
- Participate in decisions on new frameworks, tooling and engineering approaches
- Standardise tooling and processes across teams
- Look for opportunities to improve development workflows and reduce friction
Strengthen documentation and reporting standards
- Define documentation guidelines and ensure they are followed
- Implement structured incident reporting and post incident review processes
- Promote clear, accessible documentation as part of engineering culture
The experience and key skills you will have:
Essential Skills
- Solid and proven experience as a Lead PHP Engineer with experience in a technical leadership role
- Solid experience with PHP and MySQL
- Proven team management and leadership skills
- 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
Desirable Skills (but not essential)
- Experience with React, Typescript, Elasticsearch and AWS is desirable but not essential
- Python is desirable but not essential
- Scrum certification is advantageous but not essential
- Agile experience is desirable but not essential
The interview process:
- Interview with the Talent Acquisition Partner
- Online interview with the Engineering Leads
- Online technical interview with the Head of Engineering and an Engineering Lead
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 helps us to make the world a better place to work. Find out more about Reward Gateway's approach to benefits, equality, talent, technology, empathy, and what you’ll get in return for joining our Mission at
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