Head of Engineering

The role

You will form the technical vision and development plan for a product alongside the team and business. You will lead an engineering team consisting of backend, frontend, mobile, DevOps, and QA engineers.

What you will do

• Formulate technical product vision and development plan with team and business
• Lead an engineering team of 3 backend, 3 frontend, 2 mobile devs, 1 DevOps, and 2 QA
• Help engineers develop, take responsibility, and work cohesively
• Improve architecture, code quality, and approaches to development, testing, and releases
• Work with performance, reliability, and scaling of services
• Align technical and product priorities
• Find opportunities to make team work clearer, faster, and more comfortable

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of commercial backend development experience, specifically in PHP
• 2+ years of experience with Laravel
• 2+ years of management experience
• Managed a technical team of 5 or more people
• Ability to build and develop processes to help the team deliver results
• Experience with databases, message queues, caching, and search systems
• Experience with microservices architecture and service optimization under load
• Ability to dive into technical details and explain decisions to non-engineers
• Comfortable in a product environment requiring experimentation, prioritization, and adaptation to changes
• English level Pre-Intermediate or higher

Benefits

• Opportunity to influence product, technical strategy, and team development
• Space for initiative
• Open communication with team and stakeholders
• Paid vacation and sick leave
• Support for professional training
• Necessary equipment for work
• Voluntary medical insurance after the probation period

About the company

Our partner is a product IT company that develops an international online service in the field of personal development. It combines practical content and interactive tools to help users understand themselves and form new habits.