Hybrid Lead Full-Stack Engineer — Edinburgh (Laravel/NextJS)

OpenSourced Ltd; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday + birthday off

Hybrid work (2 days office / 3 flex)

Pension with employer contributions

Conference and training budget

Equipment allowance

Job summary

OpenSourced Ltd in Edinburgh is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to own the Laravel/InertiaJS/NextJS stack and guide a small, senior engineering team.

You will write code, shape architecture, and ensure accessibility and security in a regulated GovTech environment, reporting to the CTO.

Hybrid role with two days in the office, three flexible, and a focus on delivering a licensed platform for the public sector.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial full stack development experience.
• Proven track record of technical leadership.
• Strong PHP 8.3+ knowledge.
• Experience with Laravel 11+ and InertiaJS/React.
• PostgreSQL migrations and complex queries.

Responsibilities

• Own licensing workflows end-to-end from architecture to production.
• Lead integration with government services (OAuth2/OIDC, PKCE, notifications, payments).
• Set and maintain engineering standards in a strongly-typed Laravel codebase.
• Guide accessible React UI built against a government design system.
• Lead serverless deployment and operational decisions.
• Drive security design reviews and remediation.
• Mentor engineers and review PRs.

Skills

Full stack

Technical leadership

PHP 8.3+

Laravel 11+

InertiaJS/React

NextJS 14+

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Testing: Pest/PHPUnit

Git workflow

Tools

SQS/Redis

AWS serverless

CI/CD: GitHub Actions

SAST/DAST tooling

Job description

OpenSourced Ltd in Edinburgh is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to own the Laravel/InertiaJS/NextJS stack and guide a small, senior engineering team.

You will write code, shape architecture, and ensure accessibility and security in a regulated GovTech environment, reporting to the CTO.

Hybrid role with two days in the office, three flexible, and a focus on delivering a licensed platform for the public sector.