Backend Technical Lead

Domaine

8d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Backend Technical Lead to design and implement reliable, efficient, and secure integrations using PHP/Laravel or JS/Node. This role involves optimizing databases and queues, understanding infrastructure impacts on throughput and reliability, ensuring projects are well-tested, and implementing CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate will excel at communicating complex technical concepts to clients, negotiating project parameters, and providing expert advice on Shopify integrations, middleware architecture, and design principles. You will also be responsible for clearly communicating project status, raising challenges early, assisting with development timelines, grooming, assigning, and releasing work, supervising team output, and fostering a collaborative environment through code reviews and paired programming.

Requirements

Proficiency with PHP/Laravel or JS/Node, PostgreSQL, and AWS.
Comfortable working in the command-line and with Linux based operating systems.
Experience in data modeling, data mapping, and data migration between systems.
Good understanding of the Shopify data model and hands-on experience with Shopify APIs.
Ability to collaboratively solve problems and share knowledge.

Nice To Haves

Experience with React.
Knowledge of other enterprise e-commerce systems.
People management experience.

Responsibilities

Design and implement reliable, efficient, and secure integrations using PHP/Laravel or JS/Node.
Optimize databases and queues, and understand how infrastructure choices affect throughput and reliability.
Ensure projects are well tested and implement a solid CI/CD pipeline.
Communicate complex technical concepts to clients and negotiate on requirements, resources, timelines, and scope.
Provide timely advice on how to integrate with Shopify, offering insights on middleware architecture and design principles.
Clearly communicate the status of a project as a whole, and raise challenges or uncertainty early.
Assist with development timelines and in grooming, assigning, and releasing work.
Supervise the team’s output and provide guidance, helping others to solve problems collaboratively through paired programming and quality code reviews.