Our promise:

• You choose how you'll work with us: remote first or at our offices in Timpuri Noi Square (Bucharest) or Brasov;
• We support your career growth through continuous learning, coaching, and mentorship programs;
• We promise you a feedback-driven culture that inspires healthy communication;
• A friendly, professional, and supportive team is waiting for his new teammate;
• A bunch of people with common hobbies and interests (sailing, football, running marathons, tennis, music, etc.) is ready to welcome you;
• A community driven by courage and creativity (we have our own beer and our own band that sings about us) is challenging you to have serious fun with us;
• We designed benefits that give you the power to create balance in life, on and off work.

As our lead software engineer, you will coordinate the development activities and technical decisions to make sure our project, Regista, is properly defined architecture-wise and then successfully completed within the agreed parameters (timeline, performance, security, and scalability characteristics). You will be primarily technology-focused, but should also display leadership skills and act as a mentor for less experienced developers/team members.

As a Lead PHP Engineer, you will:

• Translate functional and business requirements into well-defined technical designs (software architecture and data architecture);
• Contribute to the application-building process by writing application code and implementing data storage and retrieval techniques;
• Ensure compliance with performance, security, and code quality best practices;
• This includes both conducting code reviews, as well as designing automated tests;
• Act as a mentor for other developers on the project or throughout the company;
• Express technical roadmaps and designs in an easy-to-understand and concise fashion (verbally or via slides and charts) to both business and technical stakeholders;
• Pursue research initiatives that can improve the software development processes both for the team and the company.

What you're bringing to the table:

Mandatory

• Experience in defining the software architecture for projects;
• Experience coordinating technical/development activities;
• Proficiency in using HTML, CSS, jQuery, Javascript;
• Proficiency in using PHP and relational databases (MySQL mainly);
• Good understanding of MVC frameworks (Symfony/Zend) and software design patterns;
• Good understanding of security concepts within the development process;
• Good understanding of version control systems;
• Positive attitude and effective communication skills;
• Strong English language skills (both verbal and written).

Preferred

• Some experience with CI/CD;
• Some experience with TDD;
• Some experience with React, Node.js;
• Some experience with API Platform;
• Some experience with any of the 3 major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP);
• Some experience with non-relational data stores (Redis, MongoDB, blobs, queues, etc.);
• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Our process starts here. What should you expect?

• A get-to-know-HR Discussion with Alexandra, your recruiter;
• A technical test that will show us your job-related skills;
• A technical discussion based on the test with our technical colleagues, Mihaela Sima and Andrei Rusu;
• A final tale with your future colleagues: Edward Cretescu, Andrei Hutuleac & Decebal Bilan.

Looking forward to getting to know you better! Online or at the office, you pick!