Lead PHP Engineer - Trust & Safety
Bumble
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Participate in the creation of our Trust & Safety system, including things like:
- Driving large backend projects leading a working group of engineers (backend / data science / ML)
- Support existing subsystems written in PHP, Go and C. Regular maintenance of the system and aligning it with existing data governance requirements
- Writing services and running them in the cloud and on-prem data centres using contemporary technologies like K8s, ArgoCD, Vault.
- Support our critical PHP-based backend software, optimised for performance and reliability, holding data for hundreds of millions of users, and interacting via GRPC.
- Help to implement AI-driven models for surviving our customers' requests and enhancing the existing system capabilities
- Optimise backend code, look for bottlenecks and maintain the health of your services in production
- Suggest and implement innovative solutions
- Proactively communicate with colleagues to refine application design
- Actively participate in the whole process of development, from initial design to deployment and support
- Write backend code using PHP, Go or Kotlin
- Computer Science/Tech related degree is highly desirable
- Strong collaboration skills
- Proven experience driving big backend projects with multiple people involved
- Experience in relational databases and SQL, preferably MySQL
- Understanding how to optimise and fine-tune backend application that uses MySQL or other external data sources
- Experience in building large scale solutions
- Experience with caching, sharding, replication, reliability and scalability issues
- Knowledge of *nix console environmentExperience in PHP language
- Strong will to learn new technologies
- Solid communication skills and team-working capability