Technical Lead/Associate Architect – PHP / Laravel (LAMP)

LaraBench; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Artizent in London is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead/Associate Architect for PHP/Laravel (LAMP) to own architecture, security and delivery quality of ERP applications. You will write and review production code and set architectural direction while collaborating with infra and security teams.

The role demands deep PHP/Laravel expertise and experience with REST APIs, MySQL, Docker and AWS, plus leading deployments, profiling and secure coding practices in a remote-enabled setting.

Qualifications

• We require 10–15 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on technical leader with architecture ownership.
• Strong skills in PHP/Laravel and ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and evaluate technical architectures for ERP modules.
• Stay hands-on: develop critical components and optimize performance.
• Own deployments across dev, staging and production environments.
• Lead security reviews and enforce secure coding practices.

Skills

PHP & Laravel

REST APIs

MySQL

Docker

AWS

CI/CD

Security

Performance

Unit testing

ES6 JS

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Blade/Twig

Nginx/Apache

Job description

remoteleadcontract# Technical Lead/Associate Architect - PHP / Laravel (LAMP)ArtizentRemote / Greater London, England, United Kingdom Salary not disclosedlaravelphpapidockerawsdescription## Job descriptionChrome desktop can translate this description on-device without sending the text to LaraBench.### Job Title: Technical Lead/Associate Architect - PHP / Laravel (LAMP)### Location: London, UK### Work Mode: Remote### Experience: 10-15 Years### Job Description: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.### Technical Skills* Core: PHP 5.x-8.x (deep OOP, SOLID, DRY, design patterns), Core PHP, Laravel 10.x-13.x, REST API design* Data: MySQL (schema design, indexing, query optimization, replication/backup strategies)* Platform: Linux (Ubuntu), Docker, web server tuning (Nginx/Apache)* Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, Secrets Manager (plus IAM, VPC, security groups)* CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions* Testing: Phpunit, unit/integration/API testing, debugging and profiling tools* Template Engines: Working experience with templating engines like Blade, Smarty, Twig* Frontend: JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3### Core Responsibilities/Capabilities:* 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.