Backend Squad Lead (PHP)

With Intelligence is looking for Backend Leads to join our talented and collaborative engineering team. We're currently scaling up our product base, leveraging the advances in data technology, AI and ML in order to transform our ecosystem into a fluid, event-based and decoupled offering. We're bringing best-of-breed technology options into our mix to ensure we're well-positioned to give our proprietary data the platform it needs to shine.

We're building up multiple squads for a London-based technology team to spearhead these advances. This is a chance to bring your foundational developer experience and fold in some of the latest technologies and patterns, to stay on the cutting edge of where data-driven product offerings are headed, serving data to interfaces and APIs in scalable, reliable and innovative ways.

As a Technical Backend Lead, you'd be spending your time mastering a broad array of our backend services, in order to coordinate and assist as multiple BE developers collaborate on specific services to push out features across the stack. There will also be regular opportunity to roll up your sleeves and deliver functionality yourself. You will work in a cross-functional team (React, PHP, Node, Python developers) to deliver high-quality software solutions. You'll also regularly be 'stepping back' from the codebase and measuring and influencing service health, code quality, roadmap and debt-paydown priorities.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead and drive technical decisions, influence the technical roadmap, and contribute to the growth and success of the backend team. You will be working in an agile environment, using modern backend technologies and frameworks.

• Develop and maintain web applications using PHP and related frameworks

• Lead and manage backend developers across a cross-functional team, providing guidance and support on technical challenges.

• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
• Participate in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance
• Write clean, efficient, and reusable code following best practices and coding standards
• Optimize application performance and ensure scalability of backend systems
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging to ensure optimal functionality
• Work closely with product managers and designers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Keep up to date with industry trends and technologies in PHP development
• Maintain high coding standards, code quality, and best practices within the team.
• Drive continuous improvement in backend development processes, tools, and technologies.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a backend developer, with a strong understanding of backend technologies and architectures.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing a team of backend developers, and/or cross-functional teams/chapters.
• Proficiency in backend development using PHP, and frameworks like Symfony or Laravel.
• Experience with NodeJS would be beneficial.

• Experience with ElasticSearch would be beneficial

• Experience with designing and building scalable and efficient APIs.
• Understanding of database systems and query optimization.
• Familiarity with AWS.
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and management abilities.
• Experience working in an agile development environment.

Benefits

• 24 days annual leave rising to 29 days
• Enhanced parental leave
• Medicash (Health Cash Plans)
• Wellness Days
• Flexible Fridays (Opportunity to finish early)
• Birthday day off
• Employee assistance program
• Travel loan scheme
• Charity days
• Breakfast provided
• Social Events throughout the year
• Hybrid Working

Our Company:

With Intelligence is based at One London Wall, London EC2Y 5EA. We offer amazing benefits, free breakfast daily and drinks provided all day, every day. We actively encourage social networks that oversee activities from sports, book reading to rock climbing, that you are free to join.

As part of our company, you will enjoy the benefits of an open plan office and working with a social and energetic team. With Intelligence provides exclusive editorial, research, data and events for senior executives within the asset management industry. These include hedge funds, private credit, private equity, real estate and traditional asset management, and our editorial brands are seen as market leaders in providing asset manager sales and IR execs with the actionable information they require to help them raise and retain assets. To maintain and grow our position in the market we need to continue to hire highly motivated, thoughtful and to ensure our subscribers are getting the exclusive intelligence they need first, and most comprehensively, through our range of services. If you are interested so far in what you have read, please apply, we look forward to hearing from you.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.