Technical Lead Developer PHP | Team Lead Engineer / 38 minutes ago

Heyrecruit is a rapidly expanding, profitable SaaS platform dedicated to the recruiting sector . We empower businesses to discover top talent using an intuitive and powerful solution.

As a Technical Lead Developer , you will be instrumental in maintaining the overall technical architecture , transforming complex challenges into clear decision-making frameworks, and providing expert technical guidance to the team. Your leadership will ensure our product continues its reliable, scalable, and clean growth.

Your Responsibilities

Technical Conception & Architecture

• Facilitate and document technical discussions, driving them to conclusive outcomes.
• Translate technical decisions into sprint-ready work, breaking them down into actionable deliverables, and defining tickets/epics with clear scope, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate technical dependencies across various teams.
• Ensure a consistent system architecture for our SaaS platform , specifically within PHP/CakePHP environments.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to complexity, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Strategically plan development efforts: prioritizing immediate needs, future enhancements, and non-essential tasks.

Team Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Establish technical direction, define engineering standards, and elevate overall code quality .
• Accelerate team delivery through structured processes, clear communication, and well-defined interfaces.
• Assist in segmenting work into manageable, understandable, testable, and deliverable packages.

Product-Oriented Development

• Independently implement complex features with a hands-on approach, ensuring clean and maintainable code.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and stakeholders, translating requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Contribute a vital technical perspective to roadmap planning and prioritization decisions.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience as a Senior Engineer or Tech Lead in production environments.
• Profound expertise in PHP and ideally CakePHP .
• Demonstrated experience with complex SaaS systems .
• A highly structured approach to problem-solving, capable of simplifying complexity, articulating arguments clearly, and ensuring transparent decision-making.
• Exceptional communication skills to convey technical topics effectively to stakeholders for swift evaluation and decision-making.
• Reliability and pragmatism, consistently delivering high-quality results.

Your Benefits

• A strategically significant role offering genuine influence over architecture, team development, and product evolution.
• Streamlined decision-making processes, pragmatic engineering practices, and a strong focus on impact.
• Competitive compensation, access to modern development tools, and opportunities for continuous professional development.
• 30 days of annual leave.
• A 100% remote work environment, characterized by clear communication channels and minimal meeting overhead.