Backend Engineering Lead

Reward Gateway|Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments for people at work, connecting 52 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 45 countries via close to 1 million corporate clients. Our shared missions of ‘Making the World a Better Place to Work” and ‘Enriching connections, For good’ guide our actions and chart a sustainable path to a better future.

Due to growth and expansion, an opportunity has become available for a Backend Engineering Lead. In this position, you’ll lead a team and participate in design reviews, recommend improvements, and work with the teams to develop, deliver, and maintain platform improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Proficiency: Proficient in PHP with experience using relevant libraries and frameworks.
• Scalability and Performance Optimization: Experience developing large-scale systems to handle high volumes of user interactions.
• System Architecture: Experience in designing and architecting scalable, modular, and maintainable systems.
• Leadership and Team Management: Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical guidance and driving the team toward project goals. Strong communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams.
• Defining, interpreting, and developing software to written requirements and technical specifications
• Write clean, well-designed code, following coding standards and best practices
• Working with globally distributed and multi-disciplinary teams

Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:

• 8+ years experience as a Backend Engineer with a minimum of 3+ years experience in a technical leadership role
• Proven team management and leadership skills
• Experience with PHP is required
• Experience with OOP concepts and SOLID principles
• Experience with Unit and Integration testing
• Experience with design patterns
• A good understanding of building and operating cloud-based microservices
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills

The Interview Process:

Online interview with the Senior Talent Partner and an Engineering Manager. This should last no longer than 40 minutes.
Final video interview of 90 minutes will consist of 3 stages. This includes: 60 minutes to discuss your experience and technical abilities; 20 minutes to review and discuss a coding exercise; 10 minutes to ask questions you may have

Be comfortable. Be you.

At Reward Gateway, we want all of our employees to feel comfortable bringing their passion, creativity and individuality to work. We value all cultures, backgrounds and experiences, as we truly believe that diversity drives innovation. Express yourself, join our community and help us Make the World a Better Place to Work.

We hire BETTER.

From perks to people, our BETTER approach to hiring earns us more trust, happier people and more world-class talent that help us to make the world a better place to work. 

About Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway is culture and client driven. We’re obsessed with putting the “Human” in HR and are proud to have been 100% dedicated to HR for over a decade. Since 2007, we’ve been right by the side of the world’s most innovative HR people, giving them beautiful products and tools they can use to attract, engage and retain their people.

The world’s most successful companies treat their people differently. They generate stock market returns of twice their peers and they have half the employee turnover. 76% of CEOs recognize that employee engagement is vital to their success but only 24% say they have a highly engaged company. Bridging that engagement gap is what drives us.