Full Stack Lead

Role Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Full Stack Lead with strong Laravel expertise to lead the design, development and delivery of our web platform. You will own the technical direction of the product, guide a team of developers, and stay involved in code, architecture and releases. The role suits someone who can balance delivery speed with code quality, reliability and security.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning the application architecture across back end, front end, database and cloud infrastructure.
• Defining coding standards, reviewing pull requests and ensuring maintainable, well-tested code.
• Making and documenting technology decisions, and managing technical debt.
• Breaking down product requirements into estimates, tasks and sprint plans.

Development

• Building and maintaining features in Laravel (APIs, queues, jobs, events, scheduling, authentication and authorisation).
• Developing responsive front ends using Vue.js, React or Livewire/Inertia, with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Designing and integrating REST APIs and third-party services (for example Google APIs, payment gateways, messaging and IoT/device platforms).
• Designing efficient MySQL/PostgreSQL schemas and optimising slow queries.

Team management

• Leading, mentoring and reviewing the work of developers and QA engineers.
• Running sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives, and keeping delivery on track.
• Supporting hiring, onboarding and performance feedback.

Delivery and operations

• Setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, staging and production deployments.
• Managing cloud hosting (DigitalOcean, AWS or similar), backups, monitoring and logging.
• Owning application security: OAuth, access control, data protection, dependency updates and audit readiness.
• Working with support and product teams to resolve production issues and meet uptime targets.