
Backend Technical Lead – PHP/Go
Infomediji
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Georgia
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About the role
- Own the architecture and technical direction of the content processing pipeline - upload API, Camunda BPMN workflows, admin panel, and supporting services
- Lead system design for new features and complex changes; create and maintain architecture documentation and ADRs
- Drive code quality, review standards, and engineering practices (testing, CI/CD, code style, operational readiness)
- Lead technical incident response; write post-mortems with clear root causes and follow-up actions
- Identify and manage technical debt - maintain a prioritized backlog and advocate for regular capacity to address it
- Translate product requirements into technical solutions, milestones, and well-decomposed tasks
- Mentor engineers through design sessions, pair programming, and code reviews; reduce key-person risk by spreading knowledge across the team
- Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs for team-owned services; ensure sufficient logging, metrics, and alerting are in place
- Coordinate technical dependencies with other teams (Content Serving, Billing, UGC, DevOps); represent the team in architecture syncs and design reviews
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, patterns, and tools; pilot new approaches where they bring clear benefit
Requirements
- 4+ years of backend software engineering experience with PHP, including demonstrated technical leadership (leading design, mentoring engineers, owning architecture)
- Experience of using Golang in production environment
- Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB or similar)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar)
- Experience designing and evolving backend architectures - APIs, data flows, service decomposition
- Strong understanding of testing practices (unit, integration, E2E) and CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs, risks, and designs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- English B1+ (written and verbal communication)
Benefits
- chance to be part of a pioneering team in a rapidly evolving industry
- Direct impact on the future of immersive media
- Flexible working hours and remote-first culture
- access to all tools and tech you need
- unlimited DeoVR Premium
- work environment where ideas matter and people are treated with respect
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PHPGolangNoSQL databasesMongoDBPostgreSQLAPI designservice decompositionunit testingintegration testingE2E testing
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationincident responseproblem-solvingcollaborationadvocacydocumentationcapacity managementknowledge sharing