Backend Squad Lead (php)

With Intelligence is looking for Backend Leads to join our talented and collaborative engineering team. We're currently scaling up our product base, leveraging the advances in data technology, AI and ML in order to transform our ecosystem into a fluid, event-based and decoupled offering. We're bringing best-of-breed technology options into our mix to ensure we're well-positioned to give our proprietary data the platform it needs to shine.

We're building up multiple squads for a London-based technology team to spearhead these advances. This is a chance to bring your foundational developer experience and fold in some of the latest technologies and patterns, to stay on the cutting edge of where data-driven product offerings are headed, serving data to interfaces and APIs in scalable, reliable and innovative ways.

As a Technical Backend Lead, you'd be spending your time mastering a broad array of our backend services, in order to coordinate and assist as multiple BE developers collaborate on specific services to push out features across the stack. There will also be regular opportunity to roll up your sleeves and deliver functionality yourself. You will work in a cross-functional team (React, PHP, Node, Python developers) to deliver high-quality software solutions. You'll also regularly be 'stepping back' from the codebase and measuring and influencing service health, code quality, roadmap and debt-paydown priorities.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead and drive technical decisions, influence the technical roadmap, and contribute to the growth and success of the backend team. You will be working in an agile environment, using modern backend technologies and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain web applications using PHP and related frameworks
• Lead and manage backend developers across a cross-functional team, providing guidance and support on technical challenges.
• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code following best practices and coding standards
• Optimize application performance and ensure scalability of backend systems
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to ensure optimal functionality
• Work closely with product managers and designers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Keep up to date with industry trends and technologies in PHP development
• Maintain high coding standards, code quality, and best practices within the team.
• Drive continuous improvement in backend development processes, tools, and technologies.