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 teamsExperience 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.