Tech Lead/ Architect (LAMP) | Remote

Role: Tech Lead/ Architect (LAMP)
Duration: Long Term
Location: USA- Need someone who can work in the UK time zone- Remote
 
Experience: 10-15 Years

Job Description:

We are hiring a hands-on technical leader to own the architecture, security posture and delivery quality of our business-critical ERP applications. You will write and review production code, set architectural direction. You will also work with infrastructure and security teams to keep our applications scalable, secure and resilient.

Technical Skills

    Core: PHP 5.x–8.x (deep OOP, SOLID, DRY, design patterns), Core PHP, Laravel 10.x–13.x, REST API design
    Data: MySQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization, replication/backup strategies)
    Platform: Linux (Ubuntu), Docker, web server tuning (Nginx/Apache)
    Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, Secrets Manager (plus IAM, VPC, security groups)
    CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
    Testing: Phpunit, unit/integration/API testing, debugging and profiling tools
    Template Engines: Working experience with templating engines like Blade, Smarty, Twig
    Frontend: JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3

Core Responsibilities/Capabilities:

    Design, evaluate and recommend technical architectures for ERP modules, integrations and platform evolution.
    Stay hands-on: develop critical components, debug complex production issues and lead performance profiling and tuning.
    Own production deployments, environment setup and release readiness across dev, staging and production.
    Establish engineering standards: SOLID, DRY, design patterns, Phpunit test coverage and code quality gates.
    An eye for security vulnerabilities, SQL Injection, DDOS, XSS
    Partner with infrastructure/DevOps on CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerization and AWS hosting.
    Implement and operationalize SAST and DAST in CI/CD pipelines, and triage and close findings.
    Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediate issues in live production systems.
    Run security-first code reviews and threat modelling for new features and integrations.
    Compliance exposure to SOC 2 and GDPR
    Secrets handling, CI/CD design, containerization and deployment safety.

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