PHP Technical Lead Engineer

TRAC Recruiting

PHP Technical Lead Engineer leading development of integration services for a healthcare platform. Blending hands-on software development with technical leadership and mentorship.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $165,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DockerLaravelPHP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide technical leadership for a team of engineers, influencing architecture, design patterns, and implementation strategies.
Lead, mentor, and support developers through project planning, task prioritization, code reviews, and professional growth.
Design and develop scalable APIs, integration services, and communication frameworks that connect internal applications with external systems.
Establish standards and best practices for service-oriented and distributed system architectures.
Own the successful delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring projects are well-scoped, thoroughly tested, and completed on schedule.
Implement resilient integration patterns, including error handling, monitoring, retry mechanisms, and fault-tolerant workflows.
Build and maintain data integration processes that support accurate, secure, and efficient information exchange.
Promote software quality through code reviews, automated testing, documentation, and engineering standards.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with organizational goals.
Continuously identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, tooling, and system performance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong background in PHP and modern PHP frameworks, ideally Laravel.
Proven experience designing and building APIs and service-based applications.
Hands-on experience integrating software with external vendors, partner platforms, and third-party systems.
Solid understanding of service-oriented architecture, asynchronous communication, and distributed application design.
Experience implementing data integration and transformation solutions.
Knowledge of fault tolerance, monitoring, retry strategies, and resiliency patterns in distributed environments.
Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployment technologies such as Docker.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent communication abilities.
Previous experience leading projects or mentoring engineers.
Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and drive initiatives forward.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Provide technical leadership for a team of engineers, influencing architecture, design patterns, and implementation strategies.
Lead, mentor, and support developers through project planning, task prioritization, code reviews, and professional growth.
Design and develop scalable APIs, integration services, and communication frameworks that connect internal applications with external systems.
Establish standards and best practices for service-oriented and distributed system architectures.
Own the successful delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring projects are well-scoped, thoroughly tested, and completed on schedule.
Implement resilient integration patterns, including error handling, monitoring, retry mechanisms, and fault-tolerant workflows.
Build and maintain data integration processes that support accurate, secure, and efficient information exchange.
Promote software quality through code reviews, automated testing, documentation, and engineering standards.
Collaborate with product managers, architects, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with organizational goals.
Continuously identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, tooling, and system performance. 🎯 Requirements
5+ years of professional software development experience.
Strong background in PHP and modern PHP frameworks, ideally Laravel.
Proven experience designing and building APIs and service-based applications.
Hands-on experience integrating software with external vendors, partner platforms, and third-party systems.
Solid understanding of service-oriented architecture, asynchronous communication, and distributed application design.
Experience implementing data integration and transformation solutions.
Knowledge of fault tolerance, monitoring, retry strategies, and resiliency patterns in distributed environments.
Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployment technologies such as Docker.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent communication abilities.
Previous experience leading projects or mentoring engineers.
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Hard Skills & Tools

PHPLaravelAPI designservice-based applicationsdata integrationasynchronous communicationdistributed application designfault tolerancemonitoringresiliency patterns

Soft Skills

technical leadershipmentoringproject planningtask prioritizationcode reviewsanalytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationself-motivatedcollaboration