Tech Lead/Architect (LAMP)

ZealHire Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. is seeking a hands-on technical leader to own the architecture, security posture and delivery quality of our ERP applications.

You will write and review production code, set architectural direction, and collaborate with infrastructure and security teams to keep systems scalable, secure, and resilient. The role requires 10–15 years of experience, deep Linux/Docker expertise, and strong standards like SOLID and DRY.

Qualifications

• Hands-on leader to own architecture, security posture and delivery of ERP applications.
• Experience writing and reviewing production code and architectural direction.
• Strong security focus: vulnerability assessments, SAST/DAST in CI/CD.
• Solid knowledge of SOLID, DRY, design patterns with code quality gates.

Responsibilities

• Design, evaluate and recommend architectures for ERP modules, integrations and evolution.
• Stay hands-on: develop critical components, debug production issues and lead performance profiling.
• Own production deployments and release readiness across dev, staging and production.
• Establish engineering standards: SOLID, DRY, patterns and Phpunit test coverage.
• Run security reviews and threat modelling for new features and integrations.

Skills

Apache

MySQL

PHP

ERP

REST API

Tools

Docker

Nginx

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Phpunit

Job description

Location: USA (EST or CST time zone candidate)- Need someone who can work in the UK time zone- Remote

Visa: H1B/ /GC/GC-EAD/H4EAD (Need PP no for travel History) USC

LinkedIn should match the resume dates, projects and should be created before 2021 and have photograph and location mentioned

2 Manager references with LinkedIn

Experience: 10-15 Years

MUST HAVE

• Apache
• MySQl
• PHP
• ERP
• Rest APi

Job Description

We are hiring a hands-on technical leader to own the architecture, security posture and delivery quality of our business-critical ERP applications. You will write and review production code, set architectural direction. You will also work with infrastructure and security teams to keep our applications scalable, secure and resilient.

Technical Skills

• Platform: Linux (Ubuntu), Docker, web server tuning (Nginx/Apache)
• Cloud: AWS EC2, S3, Secrets Manager (plus IAM, VPC, security groups)
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Testing: Phpunit, unit/integration/API testing, debugging and profiling tools
• Template Engines: Working experience with templating engines like Blade, Smarty, Twig
• Design, evaluate and recommend technical architectures for ERP modules, integrations and platform evolution.
• Stay hands-on: develop critical components, debug complex production issues and lead performance profiling and tuning.
• Own production deployments, environment setup and release readiness across dev, staging and production.
• Establish engineering standards: SOLID, DRY, design patterns, Phpunit test coverage and code quality gates.
• An eye for security vulnerabilities, SQL Injection, DDOS, XSS
• Partner with infrastructure/DevOps on CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), containerization and AWS hosting.
• Implement and operationalize SAST and DAST in CI/CD pipelines, and triage and close findings.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and remediate issues in live production systems.
• Run security-first code reviews and threat modelling for new features and integrations.
• Compliance exposure to SOC 2 and GDPR
• Secrets handling, CI/CD design, containerization and deployment safety.

$000,000 – $000,000 Salary range is not shown on the candidate portal