Lead Developer

LaraBench; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

PTO 17 days

13 paid holidays

Health insurance 50% employee premium

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Maternity leave

Paternity leave

Job summary

Raborn Media is seeking a Lead Developer for a full-time remote six-month contract-to-hire role. You’ll provide technical ownership across production apps, guiding architecture and release decisions while mentoring the team. Hands-on depth is less critical than leadership and review responsibilities.

You’ll review code, manage incidents, and ensure HIPAA/FERPA readiness in a multi-tenant setup, with scope across Next.js, React, TypeScript, Laravel/PHP, and SQL databases.

Qualifications

• Lead technical ownership of production applications and make final decisions.
• Perform thorough code reviews and mentor developers.
• Own CI/CD and releases end-to-end with stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Act as the team's final technical authority and handle high-risk escalations.
• Own production outcomes, including release decisions and architecture choices.
• Lead sprint planning and manage task assignment and progress.
• Establish standards, mentor engineers, and pre-release issue detection.
• Translate business goals into technical plans and explain tradeoffs.
• Review every pull request with consistent code reviews.
• Monitor HIPAA/FERPA implications and multi-tenant data-isolation risks.
• Lead incident response and communicate with clients and team.

Skills

Technical leadership

Code reviews

Mentorship

Incident management

HIPAA/FERPA knowledge

CI/CD ownership

Cross-stack guidance

Tools

Next.js

React

TypeScript

Laravel/PHP

SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL)

GCP

Terraform

Job description

remoteseniorcontract# Lead DeveloperRaborn MediaRemote / Denver USD 104000-104000 per yearlaravelphpreactdescription## Job descriptionChrome desktop can translate this description on-device without sending the text to LaraBench.We are hiring a Lead Developer for a full-time remote, six-month contract-to-hire role paying $50 per hour, with the potential for full-time employment after the contract. This role focuses on technical ownership and oversight across production applications; deep, hands-on mastery of one stack is not the central expectation, as our senior developers provide that specialist expertise. We can provide some training on compliance considerations. Full-time employee benefits include a Vanguard 401(k) with a company match, 17 days of PTO and 13 paid holidays, health insurance toward which we pay 50% of the employee premium, dental and vision plans with premiums not paid by the company, and maternity and paternity leave.### Requirements- At least 2 years of hands-on technical lead experience, with responsibility for production, final technical decisions, daily code reviews, and serving as an escalation point; people management alone does not meet this requirement.- Ability to understand system-wide architecture and make sound technical tradeoffs under pressure.- A record of thorough code reviews and developer mentorship.- Confidence making final incident decisions and communicating with clients when no higher-level escalation is available.- Working knowledge of HIPAA/FERPA and multi-tenant data-handling considerations, or demonstrated ability to learn these quickly and take them seriously.- Experience owning CI/CD and managing releases end to end.- Working fluency sufficient to review and guide work across Next.js, React, TypeScript, Laravel/PHP, and SQL databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.- Comfort using AI tools and coding agents, including acting as the final human reviewer of AI-generated work.- Preferred: familiarity with GCP and Terraform, experience across a modern JavaScript frontend and Laravel backend, or SaaS and multi-tenant application experience.### Responsibilities- Act as the teams final technical authority and handle escalations involving unclear, broken, or high-risk work.- Own production outcomes, including release decisions, architecture choices, and issue resolution.- Lead sprint planning and keep work progressing by assigning, reviewing, and redirecting tasks as needed.- Establish technical standards, mentor developers, and identify issues before release.- Translate business objectives into technical plans and explain tradeoffs and timelines to non-technical stakeholders.- Conduct thorough, consistent code reviews for every pull request.- Monitor HIPAA/FERPA implications and multi-tenant data-isolation risks in change requests.- Lead incident response by diagnosing problems under pressure, making decisions with incomplete information, and keeping clients and the team informed.- Maintain a broad understanding of system architecture across modern and legacy stacks.- Own CI/CD and the release process from end to end.