Backend Team Lead (VAS)

Position: Backend Team Lead (PHP)

Reporting to: VP of Engineering

Job Summary:

The job holder will be responsible for leading and managing a team of Backend and Frontend developers to deliver high-quality web applications and solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including project managers, designers, and quality assurance professionals, to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance and mentorship to a team of Backend and Frontend Developers.
• Assign tasks and responsibilities to team members.
• Collaborate in building and integrating with all Telco VAS aggregators.
• Provide clear specifications for QA to test integrations and subscription flows.
• Monitor test results provided by QA to double check on cases.
• Monitor funnels and improve the funnel conversions.
• Communicate with aggregators and telcos on regular basis to ensure all runs smoothly.
• Support billing and invoicing on payment subscriptions.
• Monitor our analytical data (subscription + revenue) and make sure it matches with original values of telco partners.
• Generate scripts for regular reports for the performance and evaluation of the systems and integrations to be shared with all stakeholders involved.
• Validate the technical feasibility of proposed integrations, and test the service.

Requirements:

• Previous experience in a leadership or supervisory role.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or any related field.
• Minimum 10 years of proven working experience in web development.
• Have solid expertise in building enterprise-level (PHP) Applications with a strong knowledge in the following related technologies & frameworks: Laravel, Symfony, Yii 2.
• Experience in maintaining and developing RESTful API services. 
• Have solid expertise in database technologies including MySQL, MongoDB, Redis.
• Have a good experience with working on top modern frontend side technologies: Javascript, HTML5 CSS3, React.js. 
• Have a deep understanding in building different enterprise software architectural patterns such as Microservices, SOA, MVC.
• Knowledge of containerization tools (Docker).
• Knowledge of container orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git/GitFlow and SourceTree.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud services.
• Proficiency in managing Linux environment.
• Have past experience in working with modern software development methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, and XP.