Backend TechLead (PHP, Golang)

Kiwitaxi, an international online aggregator for private transfer bookings, is hiring an experienced Tech Lead to join our development team.

What drives us?
For 14 years, we’ve been helping travelers book private transfers in over 100 countries. We’ve built a travel product we’re truly proud of. We’re one of the best in this segment, and that's easy to verify.

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Our Tech Stack

• PHP 7.1–7.4, Symfony 1, Symfony 4, Golang, Doctrine, legacy libraries;

• MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB;

• Redis: caching, sessions, key-value scenarios;

• RabbitMQ: queues and background jobs;

• REST API, GraphQL, internal APIs/SDKs;

• Main site and legacy admin panel: PHP/PHTML/Twig, HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery, Webpack;

• Docker, Git, CI

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years of commercial backend experience in PHP, plus hands-on experience with Go

• Experience designing microservice architectures and working across multiple database types

• Good grasp of modern infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, cloud services, monitoring

• Experience leading a backend team (3+ engineers) and running technical interviews

• A track record of driving technical and organizational change, and building strong engineering culture

• Experience owning a technical backlog, with a solid grasp of agile principles

• Strong communicator comfortable defending technical decisions to product and making the business case for engineering work
  

How we see this role 

We’re looking for a player-coach, someone who will spend a significant portion of their time coding (around 50%) while steadily building out how the team handles technical debt, engineering processes, and culture.

Why you’ll love working with us

• A global market and a growing product that solves real traveler problems, trusted and loved by thousands of people worldwide

• Competitive, timely compensation, plus performance bonuses after the probation period

• No bureaucracy, a supportive, down-to-earth team atmosphere

• Work schedule: 5/2, unlimited days off, flexible start times

• Fully remote, work from anywhere with a stable internet connection 😊