Team Lead/Senior PHP Developer | Edlight
We’re looking for a Team Lead/Senior PHP Developer to join Edlight — a business that builds AI products and expert services for students and professionals.
Remote Full-Time | Development
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job description
What you’ll be focusing on:
- Lead the backend direction of the product from architecture to production release.
- Manage a team of two Backend Developers, including 1:1 meetings, feedback, and development plans.
- Maintain code quality through code reviews and technical standards.
- Decompose, estimate, and plan tasks while helping unblock the team.
- Coordinate with Frontend and QA teams across integration points.
- Manage technical debt while balancing delivery speed.
- Participate in hiring Backend Developers.
You are our ideal candidate if you:
- Have strong PHP 8+ and Symfony 6+ experience (3+ years).
- Write clean code following SOLID, KISS, and DRY principles, and are confident refactoring existing codebases.
- Have strong MySQL expertise, including query optimization, indexing, and execution plan analysis.
- Demonstrate architectural thinking at the service and API boundary level, making informed technical trade-offs.
- Have cross-stack understanding and can anticipate how backend decisions impact Frontend and QA.
- Use AI development tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) as an integral part of your daily workflow.
- Nice to have:
- Experience with GraphQL (Overblog GraphQL Bundle).
- Experience with RabbitMQ and Symfony Messenger.
- Experience with AWS S3, Redis or Memcached, and WebSocket technologies (Centrifugo).
- Experience with or genuine interest in Python (FastAPI).
- Experience hiring engineers and conducting technical interviews.
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Our hiring flow:
- Step 1: Pre-screen.
- Step 2: Тechnical interview.
- Step 3: Final Interview.
- Step 4: Reference check.
- Step 5: Job Offer!
What you can expect from working with us:
- Strong team and growth environment
- Work alongside experienced and motivated professionals. This enables rapid professional growth and high performance.
- Remote work & flexible schedule
- You can start your workday anytime between 8:00 AM and 11:00 AM (Kyiv time) and finish between 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM, considering team collaboration hours. You’re also welcome to visit our office in Kyiv or coworking spaces in Lviv and Warsaw.
- Time to recharge
- 28 working days of paid vacation per year, 30 sick leave days, and all public holidays observed. You can also arrange a workday transfer — swapping a working day with a day off and vice versa.
- Health & well-being support
- For the team in Ukraine — medical insurance, compensation for sports activities, books, and therapy sessions. We care about physical and mental well-being because we play the long game.
- Learning & development
- Compensation for courses and conferences, leadership training, internal lectures, English lessons, and speaking clubs.
- Team time
- Quarterly online or offline team-building events. We know how to not only work together but also connect beyond daily tasks.
- Social Impac
- The Ukrainian Victory Support program and other charitable initiatives aimed at supporting Ukraine.
What you can expect from working with us:
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