Team Lead PHP Engineer

About air Slate

air Slate is a global SaaS technology company that develops no-code workflow automation, electronic signature, and document management solutions. Our award-winning products - Sign Now, pdf Filler, Doc Hub, alta

Flow, Instapage, and US Legal Forms - serve over hundreds of millions of users and more than one million customers worldwide, helping organizations of every size digitize processes, improve efficiency, and transform how they work.

We’re in an exciting phase of growth and transformation, with teammates in more than 20 countries across three continents and main hubs in the United States, Poland, Romania, Ukraine and Philippines.

At air Slate, we’re building value for customers and a culture where growth and innovation go hand in hand. We’re looking for people eager to shape products, scale a company, and thrive in a fast-moving environment.

And now, we are looking for a Team Lead PHP Engineer who is prepared to contribute to the next chapter of our company's growth.

The person will join the Payments Systems core team and take on the responsibility of integrating new payment gateways, running experiments, and maintaining the systems that power our users' payment experience while ensuring seamless and secure transactions.

As Senior PHP Developer, you will design and implement payment experiments, integrate new gateways, and optimize existing systems — with direct impact on the payment experience for millions of users.

• Develop the payments and billing codebase and contribute to its technical direction
• Take experiments and gateway integrations end-to-end: scope, build, analyze, deliver a verdict
• Optimize existing payment systems for reliability, performance, and security
• Lead people: run 1:1s and PDPs, mentor, keep the team aligned and resilient
• Maintain production payments and troubleshoot issues as part of an on-duty rotation
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product and Growth on payment initiatives
• Use AI-assisted development in your daily work

• Maturity and self-sufficiency — owning tasks and whole features end-to-end
• 6+ years of backend development experience; 1–2+ years leading or mentoring a small team (tech lead / team lead)
• Strong PHP skills with a modern framework (Yii2 and/or Laravel)
• Relational databases (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL)
• Git and Docker expertise
• Software architecture design and testing discipline gained on high-load projects
• Task estimation, decomposition, and prioritization against business goals
• Cross-functional stakeholder communication — taking ownership and knowing who to ask
• Professional-level English for daily written and spoken collaboration
• Fluency in ukrainian or russian language

• Payments or fintech domain experience
• Kubernetes, Git Ops (ArgoCD), and CI/CD (Git Hub Actions)
• Go expertise

Flexible working environment
- Our teams operate across the globe. We value in‑person collaboration in our hubs, but we also embrace remote and hybrid working. You can work from one of our offices in the United States, Poland, Romania or Ukraine, or remotely from many countries.

Competitive compensation and stock options
- We offer salaries that reflect local market conditions and experience, plus a performance-based bonus system and stock options so you share in the company’s growth.

Professional growth and learning
- We invest in your development through courses, conferences, and access to learning resources. We encourage career growth and internal mobility, supporting teammates who want to explore new opportunities within air Slate.

Health and well‑being
- We provide comprehensive benefits tailored to each country, including health coverage, wellness programmes and access to fitness options. We also dedicate quarterly company-wide Mental Health Days, when everyone takes time off to rest and recharge.

Family‑friendly culture
- Family life is part of who we are, and we embrace it in many forms. From flexibility for parents to our air Slate Junior Club for kids, to company-wide family days and our pet-friendly approach, we’re committed to making work and life easier to balance.

Giving back
- We support charitable…