Technical Lead (Senior API Developer)

Private Advertiser; Taguig; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Private Advertiser in Metro Manila seeks a Senior Engineering Leader to set the technical vision and direction across REST APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms. You will mentor engineers, uphold clean architecture and continuous learning, and drive initiatives across multiple teams.

You will lead several concurrent projects aligned with product roadmaps, collaborate with architects, ensure observability and security, and promote CI/CD and GitOps best practices to improve reliability and

Responsibilities

• Provide technical vision and architectural direction across multiple engineering initiatives.
• Mentor, coach, and develop engineers, fostering engineering excellence and continuous learning.
• Promote clean architecture, automation, and engineering best practices.
• Lead the planning and execution of 2–5 concurrent projects with alignment to product roadmaps.
• Design, review, and evolve secure, scalable RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Lead complex integrations with internal platforms and financial systems.
• Champion cloud-native architecture, IaC, containerization, and GitOps governance.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Technical Strategy

• Provide technical vision and architectural direction across multiple engineering initiatives.

• Mentor, coach, and develop Systems Analysts and Software Engineers, fostering engineering excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.

• Promote a culture of clean architecture, software craftsmanship, automation, and engineering best practices.

• Serve as the highest technical escalation point for complex design, development, and production issues.

Delivery Leadership

• Lead the planning and successful execution of 2–5 concurrent projects, balancing competing priorities while ensuring alignment with strategic product roadmaps.

• Partner with Product Owners to refine requirements, estimate technical complexity, and translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.

• Collaborate closely with Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure architectural consistency across platforms.

• Identify technical risks early and proactively implement mitigation strategies.

Architecture, API Engineering & Enterprise Integration

API & Microservices Architecture

• Design, review, and evolve highly available, secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices.

• Establish enterprise API design standards covering versioning, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and lifecycle management.

• Drive API-first and domain-driven architecture principles across engineering teams.

Enterprise & Financial Systems Integration

• Lead complex integrations with internal platforms, financial systems, payment gateways, and third-party service providers.

• Design secure transformation, orchestration, and routing of financial and transactional messages while ensuring data integrity, resiliency, and regulatory compliance.

• Optimize integration performance, scalability, and fault tolerance across distributed systems.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Champion cloud-native architecture and modern infrastructure practices across engineering teams.

• Continuously improve developer experience by enhancing cloud tooling, deployment pipelines, infrastructure automation, and platform self-service capabilities.

• Advocate Infrastructure as Code (IaC), immutable infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration best practices.

• Optimize application performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and operational resilience within cloud environments.

Software Engineering Excellence & GitOps Governance

Engineering Standards

• Define, maintain, and continuously improve software engineering standards, coding conventions, architecture guidelines, and secure development practices.

• Promote Clean Code principles, SOLID design, secure coding standards, and maintainable software architecture.

Git Workflow & Version Control Governance

• Define and govern Git branching strategies, release workflows, and code promotion models aligned with GitOps principles.

• Standardize release management processes, semantic versioning, artifact lifecycle management, and deployment traceability.

Commit Quality & Repository Hygiene

• Enforce atomic commits with meaningful Conventional Commit messages.

• Implement automated pre-commit validation, including:

  • Code formatting

  • Static code analysis

  • Secret detection

  • Dependency vulnerability scanning

  • Linting

  • Unit test validation

Pull Request Governance

• Establish rigorous pull request policies requiring:

  • Mandatory peer code reviews

  • Architectural compliance validation

  • Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

  • Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

  • Automated quality gates

  • Successful unit, integration, and regression test execution prior to approval

CI/CD & Deployment Automation

• Lead continuous integration and continuous deployment initiatives.

• Govern deployment pipelines from development through staging, UAT, and production.

• Oversee automated:

  • Artifact publishing

  • Version tagging

  • Release promotion

  • Smoke testing

  • Sanity validation

  • Rollback procedures

• Continuously improve deployment reliability, speed, and traceability through GitOps automation.

Quality Engineering, Reliability & Operational Excellence

Engineering Quality

• Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), integration testing, contract testing, and automated regression testing.

• Ensure comprehensive deployment validation across environments prior to production releases.

• Continuously improve software quality metrics, test coverage, and engineering confidence.

Observability & Platform Reliability

• Design and implement comprehensive observability strategies utilizing:

  • Centralized logging

  • Distributed tracing

  • Metrics collection

  • Real-time monitoring

  • Alerting

  • Performance dashboards

• Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Continuously improve platform availability, resiliency, and operational performance.

Incident & Production Management

• Serve as the primary technical lead during high-severity production incidents.

• Lead root cause analysis (RCA), post-incident reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Drive proactive monitoring, automated remediation, capacity planning, and resilience engineering to minimize operational risk.

Continuous Improvement & Engineering Innovation

• Evaluate emerging technologies, architectural patterns, and engineering tools to improve platform capabilities.

• Drive modernization initiatives including cloud-native adoption, microservices evolution, platform automation, and DevSecOps maturity.

• Promote continuous optimization of engineering workflows, deployment velocity, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.

• Establish engineering metrics and KPIs to measure software quality, delivery performance, platform stability, and customer impact.