Tech Lead - Remote (NY Time) Owns Architecture & AI Stack

Whizz; Portugal; Remote; EUR 133.000 - 169.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Competitive salary

Own the tech stack

Remote schedule NY time

Innovative transportation company

Zusammenfassung

Whizz is seeking a Tech Lead to own the architecture and codebase across PHP core, billing, ERP, client area, mobile app, and People platform. The role involves reviewing changes before production, owning database architecture, and enabling a faster team with AI tools.

Reports to the founder and leads a small engineering team. The position is fully remote but operates on New York time (EST/EDT) and offers significant ownership of the tech stack and direct access to the founder.

Qualifikationen

• 6+ years in backend development with 2+ years leading a team.
• Expert in PHP 8 and able to work with PHP, TypeScript (Vue/Nuxt, React/Next.js) and Flutter.
• Strong database architecture skills: data modelling, migrations and query optimization in MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Docker in production.
• Daily use of AI development tools and experience writing agent instructions for a team.
• Code review as a daily discipline: catch logic, data-safety and security bugs.
• Experience with Stripe or a similar payment provider and REST API integrations.
• Native Russian and fluent English.
• Work strictly on New York time (EST/EDT).

Aufgaben

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap of all Whizz systems.
• Review every pull request before merge and maintain a clear review standard.
• Design and maintain the database architecture across MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Own Docker images, deployments and environments.
• Drive AI-assisted development across the team: agent instructions, prompts, rules for reviewing AI-generated code.
• Turn product requirements into technical tasks and mentor backend, frontend and mobile developers.
• Lead incident response and ship root-cause fixes.

Kenntnisse

PHP 8

TypeScript

Flutter

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Code review

AI development tools

REST API

Stripe integrations

Russian language

English fluency

Tools

Docker

GitHub

Stripe API

Jobbeschreibung

Whizz is seeking a Tech Lead to own the architecture and codebase across PHP core, billing, ERP, client area, mobile app, and People platform. The role involves reviewing changes before production, owning database architecture, and enabling a faster team with AI tools.

Reports to the founder and leads a small engineering team. The position is fully remote but operates on New York time (EST/EDT) and offers significant ownership of the tech stack and direct access to the founder.