PHP Full stack Team Lead

Nextimox; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nextimox Technologies is seeking a Senior PHP Full-Stack Technical Team Lead to architect, implement, and own end-to-end delivery of scalable web applications. You will code hands-on while guiding a high-performing team, setting engineering standards, and shaping architecture across frontend and backend using PHP, Laravel, Node.js, and Vue.js.

You will own the SDLC from design to deployment, collaborate with product, QA, and design, ensure performance, security, and observability, and promote

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on full-stack development with PHP.
• Expertise in Laravel and API development.
• Strong JS/Node.js for backend work.
• Rich Vue.js experience for responsive UIs.
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, security, and scalability.
• Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL and Kafka/RabbitMQ.
• Experience with Docker, CI/CD, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes.
• Strong leadership, communication, and ownership mindset.
• Fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and hands-on implementation of scalable full-stack apps, RESTful APIs, and frontend components using PHP, Laravel, Node.js, and Vue.js.
• Own the full software development lifecycle from architecture to production support.
• Maintain and optimize frontend and backend systems for performance, security, and reliability.
• Collaborate with product owners, designers, QA engineers, and developers to translate goals into technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, architecture guidance, mentoring, and best practices.
• Set and uphold technical excellence, production readiness, and release discipline.
• Design and evolve event-driven architectures with Kafka/RabbitMQ and related tooling.
• Promote AI-assisted development to improve code quality, testing, and delivery predictability.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Node.js

Vue.js

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Team lead

Architectural design

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

About Nextimox Technologies

Nextimox Technologies is a product software company building modern platforms that make complex business operations simple. Our products cover workflow automation, data and analytics, enterprise systems and system integrations, built for international markets.

We’re building our main R&D team in Prishtina from the ground up. That means the people who join now help shape our architecture, our engineering standards and our culture, with real ownership over what they build.

About The Role:

We are looking for a Senior PHP Full-Stack Technical Team Lead who combines deep hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to guide a high-performing development team. In this role, you will design, build, and scale modern web applications and shared services using PHP, Laravel, Node.js, and Vue.js. You will remain close to the code while leading technical design, mentoring engineers, setting engineering standards, and taking end-to-end ownership of delivery—from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing production support.

This is an opportunity to lead by example in a senior engineering environment focused on scalable web platforms, intuitive user experiences, production excellence, and continuous improvement. You will directly influence architecture across the frontend and backend, code quality, delivery practices, and team effectiveness while contributing hands-on to reliable products at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and hands-on implementation of scalable full-stack applications, RESTful APIs, backend services, and reusable frontend components using PHP, Laravel, Node.js, and Vue.js.
• Own the full software development lifecycle, from architecture and technical design through implementation, automated testing, deployment, monitoring, and long-term production support.
• Maintain and optimize frontend and backend systems for performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, designers, QA engineers, and developers to translate business goals and user needs into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership through hands-on coding, code reviews, architecture guidance, design discussions, mentoring, task breakdown, and consistent engineering best practices.
• Set and uphold technical excellence and production-readiness standards, including clean architecture, secure coding, resilient design, quality gates, release discipline, operational ownership, and pragmatic technical decision-making.
• Design and evolve event-driven architectures and asynchronous integrations using Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and related messaging patterns, while improving shared libraries, APIs, frontend foundations, developer tooling, CI/CD workflows, and observability solutions.
• Promote responsible AI adoption across development and SDLC activities, using AI-assisted tools to improve code quality, testing, documentation, productivity, and delivery predictability.

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on full-stack development experience, with strong expertise in PHP and modern object-oriented application development.
• Advanced practical experience with Laravel, including service architecture, dependency injection, queues, events, caching, authentication, authorization, and API development.
• Strong experience with JavaScript and Node.js for backend services, integrations, tooling, or real-time application capabilities.
• Strong experience building responsive, maintainable user interfaces with Vue.js, modern JavaScript or TypeScript, component-based design, and state management.
• Solid knowledge of software design patterns, system architecture, RESTful APIs, web security, and scalability principles.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, together with practical experience designing event-driven and message-driven systems using Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ, including producers, consumers, queues, topics, retries, dead-letter handling, and idempotent processing.
• Experience with Docker, containerized development environments, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms, and preferably Kubernetes.
• Comfortable with automated testing across the stack, including unit, integration, API, frontend, and performance testing.
• Demonstrated experience building, operating, troubleshooting, and continuously improving production-grade, high-traffic web applications.
• Strong focus on technical excellence, production readiness, observability, monitoring, alerting, and shared engineering practices that improve effectiveness across teams and products.
• Thrive in a dynamic, fast-changing environment with shifting priorities.
• Strong communicator and hands-on team lead with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset and the ability to align engineers around technical direction, delivery priorities, and engineering quality.
• Experienced in applying AI-assisted development practices across the SDLC, including code generation, review support, automated test creation, documentation, troubleshooting and continuous improvement of engineering workflows.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Preferred qualifications include experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, event-driven systems, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, event and message schema evolution, delivery guarantees, distributed transaction patterns, API integrations, frontend performance optimization, accessibility, observability platforms, incident response practices, and performance tuning across PHP, Node.js, and Vue.js applications.

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