Remote Full-Stack Tech Lead (PHP/Laravel + AI)

Distro; United States; Remote; USD 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Distro is an AI-powered recruiting platform. We connect to our customers' existing ATS, sync their jobs and candidates, and run an automated multi-stage pipeline that parses, scores, and interviews applicants using LLMs.

AI isn't a feature bolted onto the product — it's the flow the product runs on.We're looking for someone to lead that engineering effort: own the architecture, own the AWS environment it runs on, and grow a small team. This is a hands-on, full-stack role.

Qualifications

• 7+ years building and running production systems as a full-stack engineer.

Responsibilities

• Own the AI processing pipeline ensuring correctness, observability, and cost efficiency.
• Lead full-stack development across Laravel backend and React frontend.
• Own end-to-end AWS infrastructure including ECS, Aurora, S3 and related services.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Leadership / mentoring

English fluency

Tools

Laravel

React

AWS

OpenAI API

Asynchronous queues

Job description

Distro is an AI-powered recruiting platform. We connect to our customers' existing ATS, sync their jobs and candidates, and run an automated multi-stage pipeline that parses, scores, and interviews applicants using LLMs.

AI isn't a feature bolted onto the product — it's the flow the product runs on.We're looking for someone to lead that engineering effort: own the architecture, own the AWS environment it runs on, and grow a small team. This is a hands-on, full-stack role.