Purpose: The Lead Back End Engineer is responsible for developing, and maintaining scalable and secure server-side applications that power our products and services. This role leads a team of developers, ensuring best practices in coding, performance optimization, and system design. By collaborating closely with cross-functional teams—including front-end developers, DevOps, and product managers—the Lead Engineer drives technical excellence and ensures backend solutions align with business goals, deliver exceptional user experiences, and support long-term growth and innovation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Data centric Sr PHP Developer position with strong experience writing complex queries and building RestAPIs.
Build and maintain a team of highly capable engineers, as well as experts in related disciplines.
- Track work completed against documented performance goals.
- Mentor team members as needed to advance their ability to contribute.
- Actively seek to cross-train developers/engineers.
Utilize problem-solving skills and attention-to-detail to participate in the analysis and design of integrated solutions.
Assist in the gathering, review and analysis of requirements, both from business users and from teams responsible for other application systems.
Participate in code and design reviews and technical presentations to staff.
Track and support multiple simultaneous activities.
Collaborate with other developers in team projects.
Identify and implement appropriate testing strategies.
Assist with SQA efforts for development of test methodologies/programs to validate functionality/design of software systems.
Identify and drive improvements to current development processes, architectures and infrastructures.
Propose framework & opportunities for system enhancements to improve performance and overall user experience.
Support changes and enhancements from initial development to product deployment.
Handle special projects, as required, to completion.
Collaborate with project team members and SQA representatives on all aspects of development, particularly as concerns documentation, customer satisfaction and security requirements.
Accurately repair and document changes to applications as assigned.
Research new technologies as time permits.
Respond to inquiries from internal users and technical support personnel regarding functions and operations of software programs.
Required to attend mandatory meetings and trainings, work scheduled overtime with minimal notice, and perform other duties as assigned per business needs.

Qualification Requirements –

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:

Must be at least 18 years of age.
Able to read, write and speak English.
Successfully pass and maintain acceptable background checks and security clearances.
Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university plus 5-7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.
Knowledge and understanding of computer networking principles.
Demonstrated supervisory or team lead experience required
Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical information (verbally and in writing) to the development team.
Strong understanding of SDLC tools, techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
High sense of ownership of the problems and requests assigned.
Focus on managing and resolving issues in alignment with SLAs.
5 plus years of experience in Object Oriented Programming and RestAPI development.
5 plus years of PHP experience.
5 plus years of experience in MySQL (Aurora) and MongoDB (DocumentDB).
Strong ORM experience in Doctrine or Eloquent including converting SQL to DBAL.
Comfortable working with relational and NoSQL databases, including writing optimized queries, and solving complex data-related issues.
Experience in query writing for data analysis and reporting.
Experience in Symfony or Laravel frameworks.
Experience working with version control and CI/CD deployments .
Comfortable working with Docker development environments.
Comfortable working in JetBrains IDEs.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Certificates and Licenses:

No certificates or licenses needed.

Computer Skills:

Must have knowledge of and work experience with Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams), as well as with one or more of the items in each of the following categories:
- Client-Server Development:
  - Microsoft Windows (for Windows applications, services, or Web services).
  - Linux Ubuntu (for Sever/local applications, and Web services)
- Languages:
  - JavaScript, PHP, Python
- Preferred Skills:
  - SCRUM Development Methodology.
  - Familiarity with agile development methodologies.
  - MySQL (Aurora), MongoDB (DocumentDB).
  - Experience with advanced database optimization techniques.
  - Familiarity with cloud-based database solutions and architecture.
  - Knowledge of additional programming languages or frameworks.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position has one or more direct reports.

Experience

Required

Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university plus 5-7 years of related experience or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

Education

Required

Bachelors or better in Computer Science or related field

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Data Dimensions, LLC

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