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PHP Technical Lead Engineer
Location
North Carolina
Posted
7 days ago
Salary
$140K - $165K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
PHP Technical Lead Engineer
TRAC Recruiting
• Provide technical leadership for a team of engineers, influencing architecture, design patterns, and implementation strategies. • Lead, mentor, and support developers through project planning, task prioritization, code reviews, and professional growth. • Design and develop scalable APIs, integration services, and communication frameworks that connect internal applications with external systems. • Establish standards and best practices for service-oriented and distributed system architectures. • Own the successful delivery of engineering initiatives, ensuring projects are well-scoped, thoroughly tested, and completed on schedule. • Implement resilient integration patterns, including error handling, monitoring, retry mechanisms, and fault-tolerant workflows. • Build and maintain data integration processes that support accurate, secure, and efficient information exchange. • Promote software quality through code reviews, automated testing, documentation, and engineering standards. • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with organizational goals. • Continuously identify opportunities to improve engineering processes, tooling, and system performance.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong background in PHP and modern PHP frameworks, ideally Laravel.
- Proven experience designing and building APIs and service-based applications.
- Hands-on experience integrating software with external vendors, partner platforms, and third-party systems.
- Solid understanding of service-oriented architecture, asynchronous communication, and distributed application design.
- Experience implementing data integration and transformation solutions.
- Knowledge of fault tolerance, monitoring, retry strategies, and resiliency patterns in distributed environments.
- Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployment technologies such as Docker.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent communication abilities.
- Previous experience leading projects or mentoring engineers.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and drive initiatives forward.
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