Technical Lead Developer / Lead Engineer PHP SaaS - 100% Remote

Heyrecruit is a fast-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 bases, and provide technical leadership to the team, ensuring our product continues to grow reliably, scalably, and cleanly.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Conception & Architecture

• Moderate technical discussions, drive them to resolution, and document the outcomes.
• Translate outcomes into sprint-ready work: break down decisions into actionable deliverables, defining tickets/Epics including scope, dependencies, risks, and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate technical dependencies across teams.
• Ensure consistent system architecture for our SaaS platform (PHP/CakePHP).
• Identify risks early (complexity, performance, security, maintainability) and implement mitigation strategies.
• Plan effectively: determining what needs to be done now, later, or never.

Team Leadership & Engineering Excellence

• Provide technical direction, set standards, and elevate code quality.
• Help the team deliver faster through structure, clarity, and well-defined interfaces.
• Support the division of work into manageable packages: understandable, testable, and deliverable.

Product-Near Development

• Independently implement demanding featureshands-on, clean, and maintainable.
• Collaborate closely with Product/Stakeholders, translating requirements into robust solutions.
• Contribute technical perspective to roadmap and prioritization decisions.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 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.
• Structured thinker: ability to reduce complexity, argue clearly, and make decisions traceable.
• Ability to communicate technical topics effectively so stakeholders can quickly evaluate and decide.
• Reliable and pragmatic approach without sacrificing quality.

Benefits:

• A strategically important role with genuine influence on architecture, team, and product.
• Short decision paths, pragmatic engineering, and a focus on impact.
• Fair compensation, modern tools, and opportunities for further education/training.
• 30 vacation days.
• 100% remote work environment, featuring clear communication channels and minimal meeting overhead.