Senior Backend Tech Lead — AI-Driven, Scalable PHP Platform

ingenious; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Unlimited paid time off

High-performance laptop

Home workspace budget

Education allowance

Licenses for AI coding assistants and/

Job summary

ingenious is seeking a senior web product engineering leader to drive a small, autonomous team building a cloud platform that manages construction and real estate lifecycle. You’ll code occasionally, shape architecture, and mentor engineers, while steering AI adoption across the group based on customer insight.

You’ll partner with experienced engineers and product/design teams to set priorities, design scalable systems, and reduce legacy code.

Qualifications

• Proven people-management experience leading developers, including 1:1s and performance conversations.
• Strong backend engineering in PHP 8.1+ with Laravel or Symfony and building large, scalable apps.
• Demonstrated technical leadership and architectural decision-making beyond implementation.
• Daily use of AI tools in engineering work and energy to push adoption across the team.
• Product mindset focused on business impact, not only implementation.
• Solid testing experience with PHPUnit across unit, integration, and functional layers.
• English at B2 level or higher.

Responsibilities

• Run regular 1:1s, support engineer growth, lead compensation and career conversations, and own performance reviews
• Drive team-level planning and prioritization with Product and Design partners
• Champion the team's AI adoption: experiment with tools and workflows, standardize what works
• Stay hands-on: write and review code, set architectural direction inside a large modular monolith
• Continuously improve the codebase by reducing legacy code, expanding test coverage, and keeping dependencies current
• Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and process design that keeps a senior team synchronized

Skills

People management

PHP backend

Laravel or Symfony

Code reviews

AI tooling

Testing with PHPUnit

Product mindset

English (B2+)

Tools

PHP 8.1+

Laravel

Symfony

AI coding assistants

Job description

ingenious is seeking a senior web product engineering leader to drive a small, autonomous team building a cloud platform that manages construction and real estate lifecycle. You’ll code occasionally, shape architecture, and mentor engineers, while steering AI adoption across the group based on customer insight.

You’ll partner with experienced engineers and product/design teams to set priorities, design scalable systems, and reduce legacy code.