Senior Backend Architect & Tech Lead

Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch); Makati; Hybrid; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch) is seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer in Makati City. The role combines hands-on engineering with leadership, guiding core applications' technical direction and coordinating with product and delivery teams. Four days on-site and one day WFH weekly.

You will mentor developers, own technical decisions, and drive reliability and performance while aligning with business outcomes and modern engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Experience leading software development teams.
• Strong knowledge of backend and frontend architecture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders.
• Familiarity with cloud ecosystems.
• Experience with performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on leadership across backend and frontend technologies to deliver scalable solutions.
• Define and enforce software architecture principles for modular, secure systems.
• Lead and mentor development teams, fostering growth and engineering excellence.
• Own key technical decisions and drive coding standards.
• Ensure high-quality delivery through code reviews, testing, and automation pipelines.
• Collaborate with Delivery Managers, Product Owners, QA/DevOps to align priorities.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and advocate modern engineering practices.

Skills

Team Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional Collaboration

Problem Solving

Tools

Node.js

PostgreSQL

Vue.js

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP)

WebSockets

Elasticsearch

Algolia

Redis/Memcached

Testing (Cypress/Jest/Playwright)

Job description

Apex Group Ltd (UK Branch) is seeking a Senior Back-end Engineer in Makati City. The role combines hands-on engineering with leadership, guiding core applications' technical direction and coordinating with product and delivery teams. Four days on-site and one day WFH weekly.

You will mentor developers, own technical decisions, and drive reliability and performance while aligning with business outcomes and modern engineering practices.