REMOTE - USA | Hiring PHP Lead Developer / Architect (LAMP) | PHP, Laravel & AWS

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., * 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.

• 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