Full Time
Quick Summary
A rapidly growing SaaS platform in the recruiting sector is seeking a 100% remote PHP Technical Lead Developer in Germany. This role requires several years of experience as a Senior Engineer/Tech Lead in production environments, very strong PHP knowledge (ideally CakePHP), and experience with complex SaaS systems. Responsibilities include maintaining technical architecture, leading the team, ensuring product scalability, moderating technical discussions, and implementing challenging features while working closely with stakeholders.
Heyrecruit is a rapidly growing, profitable SaaS platform in the recruiting sector. We help companies find the best talent with an intuitive and powerful solution.
You will maintain the overall technical architecture, structure complex topics into clear decision-making bases, and technically lead the team – ensuring our product continues to grow reliably, scalably, and cleanly.
Your Responsibilities
Technical Conception & Architecture
- Moderate technical discussions, bring them to a conclusion, and document them.
- Derive sprint-ready work from results: Break down decisions into actionable deliverables, define tickets/epics including scope, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.
- Coordinate technical dependencies across teams.
- Ensure a consistent system architecture for our SaaS platform (PHP/CakePHP).
- Identify risks early (complexity, performance, security, maintainability) and mitigate them.
- Plan effectively: What needs to be done now, what later, what never?
Team Leadership & Engineering Excellence
- Provide technical direction, set standards, and elevate code quality.
- Help the team deliver faster – through structure, clarity, and good interfaces.
- Support in breaking down work into good packages: understandable, testable, deliverable.
Product-Oriented Development
- Independently implement challenging features – hands-on, clean, maintainable.
- Work closely with Product/Stakeholders and translate requirements into robust solutions.
- Bring a technical perspective to roadmap and prioritization decisions.
What You Bring
- Several years of experience as a Senior Engineer / Tech Lead in production environments.
- Very strong knowledge of PHP and ideally CakePHP.
- Experience with complex SaaS systems.
- You are a structured thinker: You can reduce complexity, argue clearly, and make decisions understandable.
- You can communicate technical topics so that our stakeholders can quickly evaluate and decide.
- You are reliable and pragmatic, without sacrificing quality.
Your Benefits
- A strategically important role with real influence on architecture, team, and product.
- Short decision-making paths, pragmatic engineering, focus on impact.
- Fair compensation, modern tools, room for further education.
- 30 vacation days.
- 100% remote, with clear communication channels and low meeting overhead.