Backend Team Lead - Python/PHP

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and coordinate the backend engineering team, ensuring effective execution and delivery.
• Design, develop, review, maintain, and optimize backend services, APIs, integrations, and supporting components.
• Own database architecture, SQL performance, indexing, ETL/data pipelines, and large-scale data processing.
• Manage Linux servers, Docker services, deployments, and production infrastructure.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues, performance bottlenecks, system failures, and service interruptions.
• Review pull requests and enforce engineering standards, coding practices, documentation, and code quality.
• Plan and coordinate feature development, releases, deployments, and technical execution across the backend function.
• Work closely with frontend, product, sales, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into practical technical solutions.
• Contribute hands-on to backend development, architecture decisions, debugging, optimization, and complex technical problem solving.
• Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, scalability, security, maintainability, and development processes.

Required Technical Skills:

• Languages: PHP, Python
• Database: MySQL, MariaDB, SQL performance, indexing, ETL/data pipelines
• Infrastructure: Linux administration, Docker, containerized services, deployment environments
• Backend: REST APIs, integrations, authentication, service architecture, debugging, root-cause analysis, performance tuning
• Tools: Git, standard software development and code review practices