Salary
💰 $135,000 - $145,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudElasticSearchLaravelMongoDBMySQLPHPReact
About the role
- Lead and manage the backend (PHP/Laravel) and frontend (React) engineering teams, providing technical direction, mentorship, and support.
- Take end-to-end ownership of the platform’s technical direction, focusing on security, performance, and user experience.
- Champion an AI-first strategy, identifying opportunities to enhance automation, intelligent features, and predictive insights.
- Oversee the migration from V1 to V2, ensuring backward compatibility, stability, and a smooth user experience.
- Partner with product management to manage the backlog, prioritizing features, technical debt, and bug fixes.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, QA, DevOps, and leadership to deliver high-quality releases aligned with business goals.
- Drive the evolution of the platform’s architecture, including ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and MySQL components.
- Set and uphold standards for coding, CI/CD, deployment practices, and engineering excellence.
- Lead code reviews, technical discussions, and architectural planning.
- Champion a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and security-first development.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2–3 years in a technical leadership role.
- Strong expertise in PHP/Laravel and React, with the ability to guide and evaluate full-stack contributions.
- Proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex applications in production environments.
- Deep understanding of application security best practices and secure development lifecycles.
- Highly skilled with relational databases (MySQL), including query optimization, indexing, and schema design.
- Familiarity with ElasticSearch and MongoDB in production settings.
- Experience leading modernization and migration projects, ensuring stability and minimal disruption for end users.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and cloud environments (AWS preferred).
- Excitement about an AI-first approach, with demonstrated ability to integrate or leverage AI/ML to improve application performance and user outcomes.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, strong attention to detail, and the ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on technical execution.
- Collaborative communicator who values mentoring, guiding, and empowering others.