Lead Backend Architect - PHP/Laravel & Scale

Royal World Group; Muscat; On-site; OMR 20,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal World Group is seeking a Technical Lead for backend engineering. You will design and deliver scalable PHP/Laravel APIs, set technical direction, lead code reviews and drive best practices. You will mentor engineers, plan work, and translate business goals into concrete technical plans for stakeholders.

The role emphasizes architecture decisions, system reliability, security, and end-to-end delivery in Agile teams, with collaboration across Product Frontend DevOps and QA.

Qualifications

• 5+ years backend development with PHP Laravel
• 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers
• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience
• Experience shipping and running production systems at scale

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems and APIs in PHP and Laravel
• Set the technical direction for backend services and own architecture decisions
• Lead code reviews and uphold engineering best practices
• Improve performance, scalability, reliability and security of systems
• Lead, mentor and develop a team of backend engineers
• Plan and prioritize work and run sprint planning and delivery
• Translate business goals into clear technical plans for stakeholders

Skills

PHP

Laravel

RESTful APIs

GraphQL

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Caching & Queues

Git CI/CD

Docker

AWS/GCP/Azure

Security & performance

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Laravel framework

Job description

Royal World Group is seeking a Technical Lead for backend engineering. You will design and deliver scalable PHP/Laravel APIs, set technical direction, lead code reviews and drive best practices. You will mentor engineers, plan work, and translate business goals into concrete technical plans for stakeholders.

The role emphasizes architecture decisions, system reliability, security, and end-to-end delivery in Agile teams, with collaboration across Product Frontend DevOps and QA.