Developer Team Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: Developer Team Lead (web product engineering)
• Focus: Hands-on backend development + team leadership + AI adoption
• Architecture/Stack: PHP 8.5, Laravel 13, PostgreSQL; large modular monolith

Description

Lead a small, autonomous web product team where you partner with senior engineers rather than supervising juniors. You’ll combine hands-on coding and architectural decision-making with people management, planning, and prioritization. You’ll also drive AI adoption—using AI to research systems, automate repetitive work, and improve delivery value.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team with regular 1:1s, performance monitoring, and support for career growth
• Own high-level planning and prioritization with Product and Design
• Build and improve processes that keep the team effective without bureaucracy
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and performance reviews
• Lead AI transformation: experiment with tools/workflows, standardize what works, and share across engineering
• Use customer insights to challenge solutions and help decide what to build and in what order
• Write and review code, own technical direction of modules, reduce legacy code, add tests, and keep dependencies current

Requirements

• People management experience (1:1s, performance, and team processes); not a first management step
• Strong backend engineering with advanced PHP 8.1+ and Laravel or Symfony; experience building large scalable applications
• Technical leadership and architecture experience for complex projects
• Hands-on AI adoption in daily engineering; energy to lead AI adoption
• Product mindset focused on business impact
• Solid testing experience with PHPUnit and a strategy covering unit, integration, and functional tests
• English at B2 level or higher

Benefits

• Stock options
• Flexible working hours and minimal-meetings culture
• Unlimited PTO
• High-performance company laptop
• One-time $500 workspace setup budget
• $50/month education budget (rolls over until year-end)
• Licenses for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and PhpStor