Lead Full Stack Engineer (Laravel, Remote NL/UK Based)

LaraBench; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Classpass corporate membership

Off-sites and team bonding events

Top-notch tools and equipment

Flexible hybrid work environment

Job summary

LaraBench is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Lead/Tech Lead) to own high-impact features from scoping with product to live deployment. You will mentor engineers, advocate for efficient processes, and push for data-driven decisions in a fast-growing SaaS environment.

The role emphasizes architecture discipline, hands-on coding, and effective collaboration with product, design, and operations to deliver robust systems powered by AI tooling.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building software for product companies.
• Senior Software Engineer or equivalent with cross-functional team experience.
• Experience in SaaS/B2B environments and rapid growth.
• Ability to architect systems and defend trade-offs under load.
• Familiarity with AI tooling, evaluation, and production concerns.

Responsibilities

• Lead feature work end to end with PM and shape scope.
• Coach engineers and raise the team's level with real feedback.
• Drive process improvements and secure buy-in with data.
• Partner with EM and PM on roadmap and risk management.
• Measure outcomes with metrics and link shipped work to business goals.

Skills

Leadership

System design

AI tooling

Cross-functional

Mentoring

Tools

AI agents

Model inference

Cost monitoring

Job description

• Lead feature work end to end: shape the scope with the PM, make the architectural calls, decide what to cut, and own whether it actually worked once it's live.
• Use agents and AI tooling as your default way of building, and pull the rest of the team up to where you are. What you can do with a model this month should be what the team can do with it next month.
• Coach the engineers around you, including the ones who are not junior. Pairing, review, handing over scope, and direct feedback that changes how someone works.
• Change how we work without asking permission first. Spot the process that's costing the team time, build the case, get the buy in, and show the before and after.
• Be a real partner to the EM and PM. Push back on the roadmap, bring the problem nobody had noticed, and say the uncomfortable thing early rather than politely late.
• Connect what you ship to what the company is trying to achieve, with a number you chose and then went back and looked at.
• You have 8+ years building software at product companies, and you're currently a Senior Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Tech Lead, Senior Full Stack Engineer, Senior Product Engineer or similar. You've worked in a real cross functional team, not alone and not in a two person shop.
• You have a deep technical and architecture foundation. You can explain how the systems you built fit together, why you made each trade off, and what would break first under load. AI makes you faster, it does not stand in for understanding what you shipped.
• You use AI and agents as your default way of working, and you can name the tools, models and harnesses. You know exactly which parts you still do yourself and why, and you read what the agent produced closely wherever it touches data, money or auth.
• You've coached peers, not only juniors, and you can point to a specific skill someone has now because of you.
• You've driven a change in how a team works and confirmed with a metric that it landed.
• You're an extremely strong communicator. You get to the point, you can hold a constructive disagreement without it getting personal, and feedback is something you go looking for rather than something you survive.
• You have judgment about what not to build. The fastest way to ship is to cut the right thing, and you'll defend that call.
• You're proactive to the point of being slightly annoying about it. You'd rather fix it and tell people afterwards than raise it and wait.
• Experience at a fast growing SaaS or B2B product company.
• Running evals, watching inference cost, or dealing with model failure modes like hallucination in production.
• Experience being the technical counterpart for a PM or EM on a roadmap, not just on a sprint.
• Not a role where improvements wait for a one on one. If you need to be asked, this isn't it.
• Not a role where seniority means scope of tickets. It means scope of influence.
• Not a role where you can be excellent alone. If the team isn't better a quarter after you join, we both got it wrong.
• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• Top-notch tools and equipment provided.
• Vibrant, entrepreneurial culture with opportunities for growth.
• Off-sites and multi-yearly team bonding events.
• Team lunches and surprise events to keep things fun.
• Pension scheme.
• Classpass corporate membership.