Lead Developer - Remote Tech Lead & System Architect

Raborn Media; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 88,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vanguard 401(k) matching

PTO 17 days

13 paid holidays

Health insurance (50% employee premium

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Raborn Media is seeking a Lead Developer to own production applications in a full-time remote, contract-to-hire role. You will serve as the final technical authority, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers across Next.js, React, TypeScript, Laravel/PHP, and SQL databases.

The position emphasizes incident leadership, compliance awareness (HIPAA/FERPA), and end-to-end release management. The role requires hands-on leadership, strong communication with clients, and the ability to guide

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of hands-on technical lead experience with production responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Act as the team’s final technical authority and handle escalations involving unclear, 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.

Skills

Technical leadership

Code reviews

Mentorship

Incident management

Client communication

HIPAA/FERPA knowledge

CI/CD ownership

System architecture

AI tooling

GCP

Terraform

Next.js

React

TypeScript

Laravel/PHP

SQL (MySQL/PostgreSQL)

Tools

Terraform

GCP

Next.js

React

TypeScript

Laravel

PHP

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Job description

Raborn Media is seeking a Lead Developer to own production applications in a full-time remote, contract-to-hire role. You will serve as the final technical authority, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers across Next.js, React, TypeScript, Laravel/PHP, and SQL databases.

The position emphasizes incident leadership, compliance awareness (HIPAA/FERPA), and end-to-end release management. The role requires hands-on leadership, strong communication with clients, and the ability to guide