Data Products Engineering Lead

Data Products Engineering Lead

Reward Gateway, part of Edenred, is a global leader in benefits and employee engagement. We help businesses attract, engage, and retain top talent through strategic reward, recognition, and well-being solutions. Guided by our shared missions - 'Making the World a Better Place to Work' and 'Enriching Connections, For Good' - we're committed to transforming workplaces and improving people's daily lives. Our team embodies entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and respect. We push boundaries, speak up, and stay human, fostering a culture where imagination thrives.

Your Role in our Mission:

An opportunity has become available for a Technical Engineering Lead to join the Data Products team within our engineering organisation. The Data Products team is a cross-functional group of backend, frontend and analytics engineers, responsible for building and maintaining the data-driven products and visualisation interfaces that deliver insights to a wide range of users. In this role you will guide engineers through complex technical decisions across a broad range of disciplines, contribute to design reviews, identify areas for improvement, and help create alignment across teams. You will balance long term technical strategy with the realities of short-term delivery, ensuring decisions are both well informed and practical. You will also work in close partnership with the Data Platform team, ensuring that the products your team builds are well aligned with the underlying platform strategy. You will manage team performance, support career development, and help engineers grow in confidence and capability across backend, frontend and analytics domains. You will also work closely with Heads of Engineering and Product teams to support effective planning and ensure reliable, high-quality delivery across the organisation.

This is a hybrid role that would require presence in our Sofia or Plovdiv office at least twice per week, as agreed.

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Sofia/Plovdiv

Workplace type: Hybrid

Compensation: €58,000 - €62,000 / year

Reporting To: Head of Data

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing engineering team
• Shape and contribute to architecture strategy
• Ensure high-performance and scalable engineering
• Lead API design, governance, and documentation
• Drive security excellence
• Champion quality assurance and testing standards
• Reduce technical debt and drive system optimisation
• Improve engineering efficiencies through frameworks and tooling
• Strengthen documentation and reporting standards

Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:

• Proven experience in a technical leadership role working on large scale, business critical SaaS platforms
• Proven experience leading cross-functional engineering teams spanning backend, frontend and analytics disciplines, with the depth to engage credibly across all three
• Strong engineering background spanning backend systems, data modelling and tooling, and frontend development
• Hands-on experience with PHP, SQL, and at least one other backend language
• Solid understanding of system architecture, microservices, event driven systems and API design
• Good knowledge of modern cloud environments, CI/CD practices and observability tools
• Experience with performance tuning, debugging and scalability challenges
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust across teams
• Practical leadership style focused on enabling engineers and removing blockers
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• A proactive, improvement minded approach to engineering

The Interview Process:

• Online interview with the Talent Partner and Engineering Lead
• Online technical interview with the Head of Engineering and an Engineering Lead

At Reward Gateway | Edenred, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you have any specific requirements or need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment journey, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know. Your needs are important to us, and we want to ensure an equitable experience for every candidate.

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About Reward Gateway

Reward Gateway is culture and client driven. We're obsessed with putting the "Human" in HR and are proud to have been 100% dedicated to HR for over a decade. Since 2007, we've been right by the side of the world's most innovative HR people, giving them beautiful products and tools they can use to attract, engage and retain their people. The world's most successful companies treat their people differently. They generate stock market returns of twice their peers and they have half the employee turnover. 76% of CEOs recognize that employee engagement is vital to their success but only 24% say they have a highly engaged company.

Bridging that engagement gap is what drives us.

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