REMOTE – USA | Hiring Tech Lead / Architect (LAMP) | PHP, Laravel & AWS

TMS LLC•Remote, OR

2d•Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

PHP 5.x–8.x (deep OOP, SOLID, DRY, design patterns)
Core PHP
Laravel 10.x–13.x
REST API design
MySQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization, replication/backup strategies)
Linux (Ubuntu)
Docker
web server tuning (Nginx/Apache)
AWS EC2, S3, Secrets Manager (plus IAM, VPC, security groups)
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Phpunit
unit/integration/API testing
debugging and profiling tools
Working experience with templating engines like Blade, Smarty, Twig
JavaScript (ES6+)
HTML5
CSS3

Responsibilities

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.