Lead PHP Developer – Architect, LAMP, PHP, Laravel, AWS

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design, assess, and recommend technical architectures for ERP modules, integrations, and platform advancements.

• Develop essential production components through hands-on work.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.

• Lead the profiling and tuning of performance.

• Take ownership of production deployments, environment configurations, and release readiness across development, staging, and production environments.

• Establish engineering standards that encompass SOLID, DRY principles, design patterns, PHPUnit test coverage, and code quality thresholds.

• Collaborate with infrastructure and DevOps teams on CI/CD, containerization, and AWS hosting.

• Implement and operationalize SAST and DAST within CI/CD pipelines.

• Triage and resolve security findings.

• Conduct vulnerability assessments and address issues in live production systems.

• Execute security-focused code reviews and threat modeling for new features and integrations.

• Work alongside infrastructure and security teams to ensure applications are scalable, secure, and resilient.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10–15 years of relevant experience.

• Extensive knowledge of PHP versions 5.x to 8.x, OOP principles, SOLID, DRY, and design patterns.

• Proficiency in Core PHP and Laravel versions 10.x to 13.x.

• Experience in REST API design.

• Competence in MySQL schema design, indexing, query optimization, and replication/backup strategies.

• Familiarity with Linux (Ubuntu), Docker, and tuning Nginx/Apache web servers.

• Knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, Secrets Manager, IAM, VPC, and security groups.

• Experience with Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

• Proficiency in PHPUnit and unit/integration/API testing.

• Skills in debugging and profiling tools.

• Familiarity with Blade, Smarty, or Twig templating engines.

• Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3.

• Understanding of SQL injection, DDoS, and XSS vulnerabilities.

• Experience with SAST and DAST implementation in CI/CD pipelines.

• Skills in vulnerability assessment and remediation.

• Exposure to SOC 2 and GDPR compliance.

• Ability to work within the UK time zone.

• Eligibility for remote work in the USA.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Long-term contract opportunity.