Lead PHP Engineer - Data Products

Reward Gateway|Edenred is a global market leader in

Benefits

and employee engagement.

, strategic reward and recognition, well-being, and much more. Guided by the missions “Making the World a Better Place to Work” and “Enriching connections, for good”, we focus on improving employee engagement and building resilient workplaces that enhance people’s daily lives. Your Role in our Mission: An opportunity has become available for a PHP Engineering Lead to join the Data Products team within our engineering organisation.

In this role, you will guide engineers through complex technical decisions across a broad range of disciplines, contribute to design reviews, and create alignment across teams, balancing long-term technical strategy with the realities of short-term delivery. You will manage team performance and support career development across backend, frontend and analytics domains, and work closely with Heads of Engineering and Product teams — and in close partnership with the Data Platform team — to ensure reliable, high-quality delivery aligned with the underlying platform strategy. The Data Products team is the user-facing team that turns foundational platform data into products which show our users the value the Engagement platform delivers.

It is a cross-functional group of backend, frontend and analytics engineers, building both the insight-specific data models and the backend services and frontend components that power those products. A core part of how the team works is building reusable capability rather than one-off products: shared services and components that keep the user experience consistent and let new products be delivered faster. This is a hybrid role that would require presence in our Sofia or Plovdiv office at least twice per week, as agreed.

1. Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team Lead a cross-functional team spanning backend, frontend and analytics engineering disciplines, fostering collaboration across different technical domains Monitor individual and team performance and promote accountability Support hiring, onboarding and continuous development of engineers Drive predictable Agile delivery and support effective planning 2. Shape and contribute to architecture strategy Support the transition toward microservices and event driven patterns Participate in architecture reviews and cross team planning Maintain clear architectural documentation and architectural decision records Work closely with data platform lead to ensure data products and platform strategy is well aligned 3.

Ensure high-performance and scalable engineering Define, measure and report on platform performance KPIs Guide teams in designing scalable, resilient backend systems and data pipelines Support performance investigations and platform optimisation efforts 4. Lead API design, governance, and documentation Define and champion consistent API design principles, including data contracts and schema governance where applicable Oversee the governance of API changes, versioning and documentation quality Ensure APIs are discoverable, well-structured and reliable 5. Drive security excellence Establish and maintain a security-first culture across engineering teams Lead threat modelling exercises and coordinate vulnerability remediation 6.

Champion quality assurance and testing standards Promote shared ownership of quality, encouraging teams to build robust automated testing Ensure test coverage, test reliability and continuous improvement of testing practices Champion data quality practices including data model testing, schema validation and observability of data products 7.