PHP Technical Lead - WFH/Remote

CoDev Philippines; Philippines; Remote; PHP 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Work equipment provided

Job summary

CoDev Philippines is seeking a hands-on PHP Technical Lead to guide the development of a custom ERP supporting daily operations for ~120 employees. You will align technical decisions with the architect, coordinate delivery, and maintain code quality while implementing and reviewing changes.

The role begins with learning the system through bug fixes and small features, then expands into leading project work, delivering dependable changes while protecting business workflows and architecture.

Qualifications

• Strong production PHP experience and hands-on delivery in OO and procedural systems.
• Experience leading a small development team or project and mentoring others.
• Familiarity with ERP-like business systems such as accounting, payroll, CRM, or inventory.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical planning and implementation for ERP enhancements; break work into tasks and surface risks.
• Stay hands-on with debugging and development; align design changes with the architect.
• Define testing and regression checks; review evidence and release plans with the team.
• Review pull requests for correctness and maintainability; coach on coding standards.
• Clarify requirements with business users; estimate effort and set priorities.
• Improve documentation, test coverage, and maintainable interfaces for onboarding.
• Set expectations for AI-assisted work and ensure data handling compliance.

Skills

PHP development

Technical leadership

SQL

Git & PR reviews

Docker

APIs

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Tools

GitHub

Job description

This is a fully remote role with a PH night shift schedule (9 PM-6 AM), and work equipment will be provided.

About the role

We are looking for a hands-on PHP Technical Lead to guide development of a custom ERP supporting daily business operations for approximately 120 employees. You will work with the existing architect and lead developer to align technical decisions, coordinate delivery, and maintain code quality while actively implementing and reviewing changes.

The role begins with learning the system through bug fixes and small features, then expands into leading agreed project work. Success means helping the team deliver dependable changes with less avoidable rework while protecting business workflows and respecting the established architecture.

Business areas include accounting, payroll, HR, CRM, inventory, sales, work orders, and reporting. The ERP is the master record for inventory and product information synchronized to an ecommerce site through APIs.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical planning and implementation for assigned ERP enhancements; break work into manageable tasks, identify dependencies, and surface delivery risks and trade-offs.
• Remain hands-on with complex debugging and development. Trace dependencies across PHP pages, backend classes, data, and integrations; align significant design changes with the existing architect.
• Define proportionate testing and regression checks for assigned work. Review test evidence, data integrity risks, and release and rollback plans with the existing team before recommending release.
• Review pull requests for correctness, maintainability, and downstream impact. Coach developers on coding conventions, debugging, and test design, and help unblock technical issues.
• Work with business users and technical stakeholders to clarify requirements, agree on acceptance criteria, estimate effort, and recommend priorities based on business impact, risk, and dependencies.
• Guide incremental improvements to documentation, test coverage, and maintainability. Preserve consistent interfaces and capture business rules and technical decisions to support team onboarding.
• Set clear expectations for reviewing AI-assisted work; verify automated findings and ensure developers remain accountable for code correctness, testing, and approved data handling.

About you

• Strong production PHP experience plus demonstrated technical leadership of a small development team or project, including hands-on delivery in inherited procedural and object-oriented systems.
• Strong PHP fundamentals, debugging, and design judgment; ability to evaluate technical options and improve an unfamiliar system incrementally within existing constraints.
• Practical SQL and relational database skills, including tracing data usage, troubleshooting queries, and assessing the impact of changes on related workflows.
• Experience leading code reviews, assessing regression risks, and establishing meaningful test and release checks for interconnected applications with incomplete test coverage.
• Proficiency with Git, GitHub pull requests, code review, staging validation, and Docker-based local development.
• Clear stakeholder communication: translate business needs into scoped technical work, explain trade-offs, resolve conflicting requirements, and elevate decisions beyond agreed authority.
• Evidence of mentoring developers, dividing and coordinating work, providing defensible estimates, and taking technical ownership through implementation, review, and release.
• Preferred: Custom ERP, webERP, or other long-running business systems covering accounting, inventory, payroll, CRM, or operational workflows.
• Preferred: API integrations and data synchronization between an internal system and an ecommerce platform.