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LeadContractJavaScriptJava
Salary Range
$76,500 - $103,500 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are seeking a Tech Lead to join our technology-driven company building complex, scalable platforms that support user workflows, e-commerce transactions, and integrations with third-party services. This hands-on technical leader will be responsible for owning complex data models and overall system architecture, while mentoring and guiding other engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- →Design tables, relationships, and constraints for new domains and evolve existing schemas without breaking critical workflows
- →Ensure data models are well-documented, consistent, and aligned with business goals
- →Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance speed, safety, scalability, and long-term maintainability
- →Own feature delivery from backend to frontend, ensuring seamless functionality across the stack
- →Manage complex workflows including user registrations, subscription renewals, e-commerce transactions, and payment integrations
- →Maintain operational resilience of background jobs supporting mission-critical tasks
- →Mentor mid-level engineers and guide junior developers to build technical excellence across the team
- →Lead code reviews with a focus on data modeling, architecture, and clean code standards
- →Work directly with product teams and founders to translate business requirements into clear technical designs
- →Design safe, reversible database migrations
- →Ensure scalability and reliability of production systems
Requirements
- ✓10+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development using PHP and Laravel
- ✓Experience building large, complex Laravel applications from initial development through deployment
- ✓Hands-on experience with data modeling, system architecture, and evolving schemas for performance and scalability
- ✓Experience building and maintaining e-commerce systems, including orders, subscriptions, payments, and third-party integrations
- ✓Experience with PHP packages, background jobs, queue systems, and event-driven architectures
- ✓Strong expertise in data modeling and architectural decision-making
- ✓Full-stack capability with experience using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- ✓Ability to lead technical decisions while remaining highly hands-on in code
- ✓Proven mentorship and leadership skills
- ✓Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
