Daniel, 3 people for Senior Backend Engineer (PHP / Symfony)

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Daniel - three people for the payouts role. Amelia is the closest match I have seen this year; Sofia is a tech lead with lending behind her; Daniel is strong on payments plumbing but mostly Laravel. Happy to talk any of them through.

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How the candidates match your requirements

Amelia Hart Open the full CV

Senior Backend Engineer - payments · London, UK · 7 years

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Runs payouts at a regulated e-money firm today - ledger, Kafka, mentoring. Wants £85k, one month's notice.

PHP 8SymfonyPostgreSQLKafkaRedisDockerAWS

How they match your requirements
                      
                        Yes
                      
                        5+ years building backend services in PHP · must
                                                  Backend engineer with seven years in PHP
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Symfony in production · must
                                                  Lead engineer on the payouts service in Symfony 6
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Payments or fintech experience · must
                                                  moving 2 million GBP a day to merchant accounts
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Designing and running MySQL or PostgreSQL at scale · must
                                                  Designed the double-entry ledger on PostgreSQL, partitioned by month, 900 million rows.
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
                                                  Moved settlement notifications from cron jobs to Kafka events
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Mentoring other engineers
                                                  Mentor two mid-level engineers
                          From their CV

Sofia Marin Open the full CV

Tech Lead - lending platform · London, UK · 8 years

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Tech lead of five on an FCA-regulated lending platform. Strong Symfony and MySQL; no event streams yet.

PHPSymfonyMySQLElasticsearchTerraform

How they match your requirements
                      
                        Yes
                      
                        5+ years building backend services in PHP · must
                                                  Eight years in PHP and Symfony
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Symfony in production · must
                                                  loan origination platform in Symfony
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Payments or fintech experience · must
                                                  Consumer lending, FCA-regulated.
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Designing and running MySQL or PostgreSQL at scale · must
                                                  Scaled the MySQL cluster with read replicas and careful indexing.
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Not said
                      
                        Event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Mentoring other engineers
                                                  Hire and coach engineers
                          From their CV

Daniel Novak Open the full CV

Backend Engineer - PHP, Laravel · Reading, UK · 6 years

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Six years of PHP, payment capture and refunds at a grocery marketplace. Laravel day to day.

PHPLaravelSymfony componentsPostgreSQLRabbitMQVue

How they match your requirements
                      
                        Yes
                      
                        5+ years building backend services in PHP · must
                                                  Six years of PHP
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Partly
                      
                        Symfony in production · must
                                                  using Symfony components for messaging
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Partly
                      
                        Payments or fintech experience · must
                                                  Integrated card payments and refunds with an external payment provider.
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Designing and running MySQL or PostgreSQL at scale · must
                                                  Run PostgreSQL for 40,000 orders a day
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Yes
                      
                        Event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
                                                  Introduced RabbitMQ queues for order events.
                          From their CV
                                              
                        Not said
                      
                        Mentoring other engineers

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