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NMI is a leading global embedded payments enablement platform, offering a comprehensive suite of payment solutions designed to simplify and enhance payment processes for businesses of all sizes. Their platform provides services like merchant relationship management, payment gateways, fraud prevention, and tools for eCommerce, in-person, and mobile payments. 

NMI serves a broad range of clients, including independent sales organizations, software developers, banks, and payment facilitators, helping them reduce onboarding friction and increase transaction efficiency. The company is committed to driving innovation and unlocking new growth potential through flexible, modular embedded payments solutions. 

Secure Credit Card Transactions from a PCI Certified Gateway • payment gateway • card processing • mobile & online payments • contact & contactless EMV


201 - 500 employees

💳 Fintech

🤝 B2B

Staff Engineer (Tech Lead)
15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

Ansible

AWS

Azure

Cloud

Docker

Google Cloud Platform

Grafana

GraphQL

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Laravel

Microservices

MySQL

PHP

Postgres

Prometheus

Puppet

Python

Redis

Symfony

Terraform

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📋 Description
• Lead a high-performing PHP development team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and guide the adoption of best practices in software engineering.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Define and evolve the architecture of PHP-based services and applications to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance.
• Establish and enforce coding standards, design principles, and architectural guidelines.
• Drive the adoption of modern frameworks, tools, and methodologies.
• Lead the design, development, and deployment of mission-critical PHP applications and platform components.
• Ensure high-quality, maintainable code through peer reviews, automated testing, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with DevOps/SRE teams to optimize application reliability and performance.
• Work with SRE to maintain and improve system uptime, scalability, and latency targets.
• Drive performance analysis, tuning, and optimization efforts.
• Implement and uphold security best practices for PHP applications and supporting infrastructure.
• Advocate for process improvements, automation, and modern engineering practices.
• Stay informed on emerging trends in PHP, backend development, cloud services, and DevOps tooling.
• Lead proof-of-concept initiatives for new technologies and frameworks.

🎯 Requirements
• PHP Mastery: Proven experience architecting and developing large-scale PHP applications (preferably Laravel, Symfony, or similar frameworks).
• Database Expertise: Strong skills with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching technologies (Redis, Memcached).
• CI/CD Pipelines: Proficiency with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent, including automated testing and deployment.
• API Development: Expertise in designing, implementing, and securing RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs; knowledge of API gateways and authentication standards (OAuth, JWT).
• Monitoring & Logging: Familiarity with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Strong track record of leading development teams and delivering complex software projects.
• Excellent communication skills for engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive alignment on technical direction.
• Bonus Skills: Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP; containerization with Docker; orchestration with Kubernetes.
• Bonus Skills: Familiarity with microservices architecture.
• Scripting abilities in Bash, Python, or PowerShell.

🏖️ Benefits
• Annual salary of $130,000 - $160,000 + bonus
• A remote first culture!
• Flex PTO
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Company volunteer days