[Hiring] Magento2 Tech Lead @VPteam

Role Description

We're bringing in a strong Tech Lead to own the toughest technical problems on the platform — deep architecture calls, complex integrations, and anything that needs more bandwidth than day-to-day delivery allows. You'll work side by side with our Team Lead, focusing on the technical side while they focus on people and delivery.

You'll combine deep hands-on Magento 2 engineering with real technical leadership — owning architecture decisions, setting the technical bar, and helping the rest of the team level up. You'll have a real say in how things get built, and a direct line into both technical and product challenges.

This is a strong fit for a senior engineer who's ready to step beyond pure execution — someone who sees the whole picture, isn't afraid of legacy code, helps people around them grow, and treats AI-assisted development tools as a normal part of the daily workflow, not a novelty.

What you'll do

• Own technical architecture and design decisions for the platform, balancing pragmatism with long-term maintainability — perfect code is not the goal; working software is.
• Develop and maintain Magento 2 functionality: custom modules, API integrations, admin workflows, and performance improvements.
• Work with our Python-based microservices — integrate with them, extend them when needed, and collaborate on service-level changes.
• Define and enforce technical standards, code review practices, and quality bar across the team.
• Conduct code reviews with practical, direct feedback focused on delivery quality, not nitpicking.
• Support and mentor engineers on the team, helping them make better technical calls on their own.
• Identify and resolve the complex technical problems that stall with our current setup — the ones that need more than a mid-level developer can carry alone.
• Design and maintain integrations across our stack — payments (Stripe), third-party medical and marketing systems, and internal microservices — with a clear understanding of security boundaries and authorization.
• Proactively flag reliability, performance, and developer-experience issues before they become incidents.
• Collaborate with Product, QA, and DevOps to clarify requirements, validate solutions, and ship smoothly.
• Communicate technical progress, risks, and decisions clearly to the Team Lead and stakeholders.

Success in this role looks like

• The backlog of complex, senior-level tasks that used to stall stops piling up.
• The team ships integrations and features with fewer security or data-handling surprises.
• Engineers around you are visibly leveling up — code reviews teach, not just gatekeep.
• The Team Lead has a real technical partner to think through hard problems with, not just another pair of hands.

Team & culture

• The team has been together for years (some for 8-10+), even though this product itself is a young spin-off — you're joining an experienced crew, not a green startup team.
• Direct, no-nonsense communication culture — disagreeing with your manager is normal and welcomed, not risky.
• Scrum/Kanban hybrid workflow, mandatory code review, unit and integration tests, and some QA automation tests that run directly against production to catch real issues early.
• AI tools are part of daily life here: GitHub Copilot, Gemini Pro, Claude Code, and others — used deliberately, not as a crutch.

Hiring process

• Intro call with a recruiter (30 min).
• Technical interview with the Team Lead and a Senior Developer (1.5 hours).
• Final interview with the CTO (45 min - 1 hour).
• Reference check.
• Offer.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on your experience and skills.
• Flexible schedule and remote work options.
• 20 working days of paid vacation per year.
• 5 paid sick days per year.
• Conferences, workshops, webinars, and training — we invest in your growth.
• Exposure to a wide variety of technologies and international projects.
• A team that genuinely values engineering quality, initiative, and smart use of modern AI tools.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall software development experience — we care more about real seniority than the exact number on paper, so if you're a bit under that but have clearly operated at Tech Lead level, we still want to talk.
• 3+ years of hands-on Magento 2 experience — this one is a hard requirement.
• Proven experience in a technical leadership role — as a Tech Lead, a Senior Engineer driving architecture decisions, or similar. A former title isn't required if you can clearly show you've operated at that level.
• Strong experience with Magento 2: custom module development, API integrations, admin workflows, and performance considerations.
• Solid understanding of Magento 2 architecture, extension patterns, and scalability best practices.
• Strong proficiency in PHP 8+, MySQL, and JavaScript/ES6+.
• Working knowledge of Python — enough to read, debug, and integrate with Python-based services.
• Proven experience with third-party integrations, including payment systems (e.g. Stripe) or other business-critical services.
• Experience with caching and scalability tools such as Varnish, Redis, and CDN.
• Experience with cloud-based deployments and basic infrastructure concepts.
• Hands-on production experience — you understand what breaks in production, how to log it, and how to prevent it, not just how to build features.
• Product or service company background rather than pure outsourcing — you should have actually seen your code run in production and lived with the consequences.
• Regular hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar) as part of your daily workflow.
• Strong ownership mindset — you understand business context, make pragmatic technical calls, and ship reliable solutions.
• English level: Upper-Intermediate (B2) or higher, comfortable with written communication and technical discussions.
• Ukrainian language is a must, as most of the tech team comes from Ukraine.

Bonus points

• Magento certification(s).
• Experience with AWS services and cloud-based architectures (e.g. Lambda, CloudFormation).
• Experience with microservices or service-oriented architecture.
• Experience in healthcare, telehealth, or other regulated domains (e.g. HIPAA) — a strong plus, but not required; we just want you to be prepared for how strict the environment is.
• Experience with subscription or other recurring billing flows.
• Prior experience leading technical initiatives or mentoring engineers.