Senior Fullstack (PHP+React) for Shoparize

Who we are

Blackbird Lab is a software development company. While we are practicing an international working culture, we are proud representatives of Ukrainian values and traditions. We are a team of 90+ energetic, curious, smart, and open to new challenges tech pros who prefer efficient async communication, flexible working hours, a co-working office model, etc.

Being in this craft for 8+ years, we managed to accumulate expertise and bring value to a number of clients. We cooperate with US and Canadian product companies of different sizes, from small startups to established products, in close, trusted relationships.

All team members, including management, have an engineering background. The process, participants who speak the same language and have a similar approach based on technical principles, is always efficient. It is way easier to make decisions and introduce new features in a team with engineering at heart. It is the technical DNA that lets us build high-quality products that facilitate the lives of our customers’ users.

Position & client

Our client is a dynamic and rapidly growing Adtech e-commerce platform, built for merchants to generate incremental revenue with performance marketing and AI tooling to improve their shopping campaigns. Furthermore, Shoparize is revolutionizing the way people shop online. Our platform aggregates product listings from various retailers, providing users with a seamless and comprehensive shopping experience.

We are looking for our future Lead in Amsterdam, but if you are in Europe and ready for relocation, we can provide support.

What you will do

• Participate in technical and product discussions, contributing to architecture and solution design.

• Estimate tasks, take ownership of delivery, and be responsible for code reviews.

• Oversee software quality, system stability, and ongoing improvements.

• Guide and mentor team members, helping troubleshoot complex technical issues.

• Analyze existing systems and workflows to identify risks, bottlenecks, and redundancies.

• Conduct technical assessments and propose scalable, maintainable solutions.

• Write production-ready code and establish coding standards, best practices, and engineering culture.

• Lead technical roadmaps and align engineering efforts with business goals.

What you will need

• 5+ years of commercial experience with PHP (Laravel).

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS in production environments.

• Strong understanding of relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and messaging systems (RabbitMQ).

• Experience working with ElasticSearch.

• Solid experience with Kubernetes (preferably AWS EKS).

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure components: EC2, RDS, VPC, S3.

• Experience with monitoring and error tracking tools (NewRelic, Grafana, Sentry).

• Team management experience, including mentoring, performance reviews, and coaching.

• Proven ability to lead technical roadmaps and make architectural decisions.

• Upper-Intermediate level of spoken and written English.

Nice to have

• Experience with TypeScript + ReactJS.

• Background in scaling high-load systems.

• Experience working with distributed or international teams.

• Strong product-oriented mindset and understanding of business impact.

Stack of the project

• Backend: PHP, Laravel

• Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL

• Messaging & Search: RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, EKS)

• Containerization: Kubernetes (EKS)

• Monitoring & Alerting: NewRelic, Grafana, Sentry

• Frontend: TypeScript, ReactJS

Team setup & processes

• Engineering Manager

• Team Lead

• Senior Engineers

• Cross-functional product and engineering collaboration

• Regular code reviews, technical discussions, and roadmap planning

Interview process

• HR interview (30 min)

• Intro call with a client (15–30 min)

• Offline coding challenge on Coderbyte (~90 min)

• Technical interview with the Engineering team (60–90 min)

• Interview with a Managing Director (30 min)

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience (holiday allowance included).

• 25 days of paid vacation per year.

• Company laptop.

• Flexible working conditions and remote-friendly environment.

• Commuting costs compensation.

• 2 weeks of workation per year.

• Professional development opportunities and tuition reimbursement.

• Extra perks such as ClassPass subscription and company events.

• Dynamic, collaborative work environment with clear growth opportunities.