Laravel Technical Lead
ZigZag Offshoring
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Philippines
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About the role
- The Technical Lead is accountable for achieving and maintaining predictable delivery.
- Measured by: Defined roadmap milestones delivered on time.
- Reduction in missed or rolled over tickets.
- Clear weekly delivery commitments met consistently.
- Visible reduction in founder intervention for delivery issues.
- Expected outcome: roadmaps translate into shipped work, not stalled plans.
- The Technical Lead is responsible for improving the output of all developers.
- Measured by: Increased developer velocity within the first 90 days.
- Clear ownership per developer and per task.
- Reduction in rework and unclear scope issues.
- Identification and correction or exit of underperforming developers.
- Expected outcome: a smaller, more effective team that delivers more reliably.
- The Technical Lead must remove single points of failure.
- Measured by: Core systems and workflows documented.
- Reduced reliance on individual developers’ knowledge.
- New developers able to onboard without founder involvement.
- Expected outcome: IP is protected and transferable.
- The Technical Lead is expected to understand the commercial impact of technical decisions.
- Measured by: Reduced cost of delivery through efficiency improvements.
- Clear visibility of development cost per feature or project.
- Fewer overruns on client website and technical work.
- Alignment of development effort with profitable work.
- Expected outcome: Technical execution supports margin, not erodes it.
- Where applicable, performance based incentives may be tied to: Delivery against agreed milestones.
- Reduction in technical overhead.
- Measurable efficiency gains.
- Smooth collaboration with Marketing Manager on websites and campaigns.
- Reduced friction between marketing and development.
- Faster turnaround for website changes via CanTicket.
- Expected outcome: Marketing and development operate as one system.
Requirements
- The Technical Lead must have deep working knowledge and leadership level understanding of the following stack.
- Laravel (production SaaS environments)
- PHP (modern standards and performance considerations)
- MySQL (schema design, performance, data integrity)
- AWS (environments, deployments, security, scalability)
- SaaS and production experience.
- Must have experience working in a live SaaS product in market, including:
- SaaS operational realities (releases, uptime, reliability)
- Understanding of multi-tenant or SaaS style environments
- Incident response and production issue management
- Security and data protection expectations
- Balancing speed with stability
- API and integration capability.
- Must have strong experience overseeing and guiding:
- REST API design and implementation
- API authentication and security patterns
- Third party integrations
- Webhooks and event driven workflows
- API documentation standards
- Leadership and delivery requirements.
- Must have proven experience in a lead role, including:
- Leading developers and enforcing accountability
- Translating business and product direction into executable work
- Running delivery cadence and weekly commitments
- Enforcing QA and definition of done
- Owning documentation and knowledge transfer
- Making hard calls on performance when required.
Benefits
- ZigZag is committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.
- We believe that talent knows no borders.
- We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to help us shape the future of work.
- Guided by transparency and agility, we foster an environment where everyone is valued and empowered to thrive.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
LaravelPHPMySQLAWSREST API designAPI authenticationThird party integrationsWebhooksAPI documentationSaaS
Soft Skills
leadershipaccountabilitycollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingperformance managementdelivery managementdocumentationefficiency improvementteam building