Reward Gateway

Lead PHP Engineer - Surveys

Posted One Month Ago

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2 Locations

Remote or Hybrid

63K-63K Annually

Senior level

HR Tech • Marketing Tech • Software

The Role

Lead a PHP engineering team, guide architecture toward microservices and event-driven patterns, own API design and governance, drive performance, security, testing standards, reduce technical debt, improve tooling, and support hiring and career development to ensure reliable delivery.

Summary Generated by Built In

Reward Gateway, part of Edenred, is a global leader in benefits and employee engagement. We help businesses attract, engage, and retain top talent through strategic reward, recognition, and well-being solutions.

Guided by our shared missions - ‘Making the World a Better Place to Work’ and ‘Enriching Connections, For Good’ - we’re committed to transforming workplaces and improving people’s daily lives.

Our team embodies entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and respect. We push boundaries, speak up, and stay human, fostering a culture where imagination thrives.

Your Role in our Mission:

An opportunity has become available for a PHP Engineering Lead - Surveys to join our engineering organisation. In this role, you will guide engineers through complex technical decisions, contribute to design reviews, and create alignment across teams, balancing long-term technical strategy with the realities of short-term delivery. You will manage team performance, support career development, and work closely with Heads of Engineering and Product teams to ensure reliable, high-quality delivery.
This role sits within our Surveys team, which measures the thing our whole platform exists to move: how engaged people are at work. The team is both a product team and an insights team. On the product side, we build the customisable surveys product that lets Clients gather feedback directly from their employees, from eNPS and Engaged Index surveys through to bespoke surveys and polls. On the insights side, we turn the resulting data into engagement insights Clients can act on. A PHP Engineering Lead you will guide the team across both halves of that mission, helping shape a product and a data capability that gives Clients the clearest available measure of engagement and the evidence to prove the value their platform creates.
Location & Contract Type: This is a hybrid role that would require presence in our Sofia or Plovdiv office at least twice per week, as agreed.

What You’ll be Doing:

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

Experience and Skills You Need in this Role:

Solid and proven experience as a Lead PHP Engineer with experience in a technical leadership role
Experience with PHP and MySQL is essential
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
Experience with Python, React, Typescript, Elasticsearch and AWS is desirable but not essential
Scrum certification is advantageous but not essential
Agile experience is desirable but not essential

The interview process:

Screening interview with the Talent Acquisition Partner
First Stage interview with Engineering Leads
Final Stage technical interview with the Head of Engineering and an Engineering Lead

At Reward Gateway, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you have any specific requirements or need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment journey, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know. Your needs are important to us, and we want to ensure an equitable experience for every candidate.

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About
Reward Gateway is culture and client driven. We’re obsessed with putting the “Human” in HR and are proud to have been 100% dedicated to HR for over a decade. Since 2007, we’ve been right by the side of the world’s most innovative HR people, giving them beautiful products and tools they can use to attract, engage and retain their people.The world’s most successful companies treat their people differently. They generate stock market returns of twice their peers and they have half the employee turnover. 76% of CEOs recognize that employee engagement is vital to their success but only 24% say they have a highly engaged company. Bridging that engagement gap is what drives us.