Senior Tech Lead (PHP/Laravel + React)

Responsibilities: — Lead the technical development of multiple products using PHP/Laravel and React. — Initially focus about 70% on backend and 30% on frontend hands-on development to deeply understand the products, business logic, codebase, and architecture. — Gradually assume broader technical leadership duties including architectural decisions, technical planning, and setting development standards. — Understand complex business requirements, clarify specifications, and assess technical impacts of changes. — Evolve existing systems, work with legacy code, and improve architecture while ensuring production stability. — Design and develop REST APIs and third-party integrations. — Build reusable solutions such as white-label approaches to speed up new website and marketing initiative launches. — Enhance administrative tools for client business settings management with access control and audit logging. — Oversee performance optimization, caching, queues, and background processing. — Participate in code reviews, testing, production troubleshooting, and continuous engineering practice improvements. — Break down and estimate tasks, identify technical risks, and communicate solutions and trade-offs to the client. — Take ownership of technical decisions and ensure their successful production implementation. — Adapt to dynamic project priorities and maintain effective client communication. Requirements: — Strong commercial experience with PHP and Laravel. — Practical experience with React and full-stack capabilities. — Previous roles as Tech Lead, Lead Developer, or Senior Engineer with significant technical ownership. — Solid understanding of web application architecture, REST API design, and third-party integrations. — Experience with complex business logic and large or evolving codebases. — Good knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL), query optimization, caching (Redis), and background processing. — Confident with Git, Docker, Linux, and CI/CD practices. — Understanding of testing, code reviews, logging, and production troubleshooting. — Experience maintaining and improving legacy systems without compromising stability. — Ability to make independent technical decisions, assess risks, and take responsibility for outcomes. — Practical use of AI tools for development, testing, code reviews, and automation. — Advanced English for direct client communication and fluent Russian for team interaction. Nice to Have: — Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar). — Experience with high-load or distributed systems. — Experience modernizing legacy systems, mentoring developers, and introducing engineering metrics. Benefits: — Fully remote work from anywhere in the world. — Compensation discussed individually based on experience and expertise. — Working schedule: Monday to Friday, 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM (GMT+3). — 28 calendar days of paid annual leave. — Quarterly bonuses. — Compensation for health insurance expenses. — Financial support in important life situations. — Gradual transition into full technical leadership responsibilities, starting with hands-on development. — Opportunity to relocate to Montenegro.