Lead Software Engineer

Insight Global; Teletrabalho; BRL 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A leading staffing and consulting firm is seeking a Lead Software Engineer based in Canoas, Brazil. This fully remote role involves leading a small engineering team and remaining hands-on with PHP and Node.js development. Responsibilities include scoping work, guiding best practices, and ensuring high-quality delivery while modernizing and migrating legacy applications. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience, with a strong emphasis on PHP and a minimum of 1 year in a lead development role. A competitive salary of 20k-28k BRL per month is offered.

Qualificações

• 8+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer with strong emphasis on PHP.
• Minimum 1 year of lead development experience, providing technical guidance and oversight.
• Hands-on experience with updating underlying libraries and ensuring proper packaging in Node.js.

Responsabilidades

• Lead a small engineering team while remaining hands-on with PHP and Node.js development.
• Scope work, estimate story points, guide best practices, and ensure high-quality delivery.
• Support modernization effort to containerize legacy PHP applications onto a Kubernetes-based platform.

Conhecimentos

PHP 7.x and 8.x

Node.js

Docker containerization

Technical leadership

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Overview

This position is fully remote and CLT model and salary range is 20k-28k BRL / mo. Must‑haves :

• 8+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, with strong emphasis on PHP
• Minimum 1 year of lead development experience (technical leadership, guidance, oversight)
• Strong PHP 7.x and 8.x background (ideally working with PHP in the most recent project) – Comfortable upgrading PHP versions and eliminating underlying vulnerabilities
• Hands‑on experience with Node.js — updating underlying libraries and ensuring proper packaging
• Experience with Docker containerization (application‑side responsibilities, not Kubernetes cluster management)

Day-to-Day

In this role, you\'ll lead a small engineering team (3–5 developers) while remaining hands‑on with PHP and Node.js development. You\'ll help scope work, estimate story points, guide best practices, and ensure high‑quality delivery as the team modernizes and migrates legacy applications. This includes supporting a large‑scale infrastructure initiative to containerize and move roughly 40 legacy PHP applications onto a Kubernetes‑based platform. The work involves lift‑and‑shift migration with targeted refactoring—preserving the existing codebase, reducing redundancy across applications, containerizing services, and helping move source control into GitHub with updated CI / CD pipelines. You\'ll partner closely with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure application standards and deployment requirements are met throughout the modernization effort.

Lead Software Engineer • Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil