Senior Technical Lead

Overview

Cube Zoo is looking for a Senior Technical Lead to take ownership of technical direction, architecture quality, and engineering standards across our web and mobile platforms.
Laravel remains our primary backend framework today
, and this role will be responsible for guiding teams building on Laravel while leading Cube Zoo’s evolution toward a more cloud native, AWS aligned architecture
.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role suited to someone who enjoys writing code, shaping systems, mentoring developers, and making pragmatic architectural decisions in a fast-moving agency environment.

• Act as a technical authority across projects, providing guidance on architecture, design patterns, and system scalability
• Lead and contribute to architectural discussions, ensuring solutions are robust, secure, and fit for purpose
• Define and uphold engineering standards, best practices, and code quality guidelines
• Review and approve technical designs, pull requests, and major implementation decisions
• Identify technical risk early and drive mitigation plans
• Design, build, and maintain backend services using Laravel and PHP
• Architect and maintain RESTful APIs powering web and mobile applications
• Contribute across the full stack where required, including frontend and mobile components
• Design and optimise relational databases (MySQL, Postgre
  
  SQL)
• Oversee integration with third party services, payment gateways, and external APIs
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and production stability
• Mentor developers through code reviews, technical guidance, and problem solving support
• Support junior and intermediate engineers in growing their technical capability
• Collaborate closely with Product, UX, QA, and Delivery to ensure technical feasibility and quality
• Provide clear technical input into planning, estimation, and delivery decisions
• Guide teams in deploying and operating systems in AWS environments
• Take ownership of improving cloud maturity over time (reliability, observability, scalability)
• Drive pragmatic adoption of AWS services aligned to Cube Zoo’s roadmap
• Work within evolving systems while steadily improving architecture and resilience

• 7+ years professional experience in full stack development
• Strong production experience with Laravel and PHP
• Proven experience designing and leading scalable systems and APIs
• Solid understanding of OOP, SOLID principles, and modern backend architecture
• Strong database design and SQL optimisation skills
• Frontend experience with modern frameworks such as Vue.js or React
• Experience with Git based workflows and peer review practices
• Comfortable leading technical decisions and guiding others

• Experience deploying or supporting applications in cloud environments
• Working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, RDS, S3, Cloud Watch
• Strong interest in deepening AWS and cloud architecture expertise
• Comfortable operating in environments transitioning toward cloud native patterns

• Experience with Docker or containerised development
• Exposure to serverless or event driven architectures
• Mobile app development or deployment experience
• AI or API driven platform experience
• Previous agency or client facing delivery experience

• Technical ownership and influence across meaningful, complex systems
• A role that blends hands on engineering with real technical leadership
• Opportunity to shape Cube Zoo’s architecture and cloud future
• A collaborative culture that values clarity, pragmatism, and continuous learning
• Space to grow into broader technical strategy and leadership over time