SaaS Solutions Tech Lead

Solutions Lead Developer (E-commerce Marketplace)

Role Summary

Own and implement technical architecture, platform scalability, and security. Act as the bridge between business vision and technical execution. Should be a leader and self contributor.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership in startup / Saas / marketplace environments.

Define and develop platform architecture (Laravel, Redis, S3, Stripe, SES).

Implement coding standards, GitHub policies, CI / CD pipelines.

Implement APIs for n8n workflows and integrations.

Observability, monitoring, and cloud cost optimization.

Work with vendor Dev team and guide DevOps.

6+ years in software engineering / architecture.

Strong Laravel + micro services background.

Experience with AWS stack, Stripe Connect, and CI / CD.

Ensure secure, scalable, and testable code.

Document workflows and escalate technical issues.

Ensure operational SLAs are met.

Qualifications

5+ years PHP Laravel development.

Strong in integrating APIs, Redis, S3, Stripe.

Proven experience leading in house and outsourced teams

Experience with

• Infra / Hosting : DigitalOcean / Hetzner OR Laravel Forge for click-provision + deploy;

DB / Cache / Queue : MySQL 8 or Postgres 15; Redis for cache / queues; Laravel Horizon to monitor queues.

Object Storage : S3 or Cloudflare R2 (+ CDN).

CI / CD : GitHub Actions (free); zero-downtime deploys via Forge or Deployer.

Payments & KYC : Stripe Connect (Standard) + Stripe Identity, Stripe Tax for US / CA tax automation.

Automation Orchestrator : n8n (self-hosted)

Crash, Logs, Uptime : Sentry (free tier), Better Uptime OR Uptime Kuma (self-host), basic log shipper (Vector) to Logtail.

Analytics : Plausible (privacy-friendly), Metabase on DB replica for product & finance dashboards.