Tech Lead Engineer PHP Symfony & AWS, REMOTE

• Proven experience leading a team or workstream – driving delivery, mentoring engineers, making technical decisions, and collaborating with Product
• Proven, hands-on experience building production applications with PHP, MySQL, Symfony, and Doctrine
• Real-world experience building and running applications on AWS, including production debugging with CloudWatch logs, metrics, and alarms
• A track record of predictable delivery – realistic estimation, managing scope with Product, and closing out sprint commitments
• Solid REST API design skills (ideally also GraphQL), including security and performance
• Strong knowledge of MySQL on production workloads, including EXPLAIN plans, missing indexes, and query optimisation
• Experience with automated testing in PHP – phpspec and Behat
• Strong interest in AI-assisted development; hands-on experience with AI coding agents or spec-first workflows (e.g. GitHub Spec Kit) is a plus, but curiosity and willingness to lead adoption matter more

Nice to Have:

• Hands-on experience with messaging and event-driven patterns – RabbitMQ, Redis, or AWS equivalents (SQS, SNS, EventBridge)
• Experience with serverless services – Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, or Aurora Serverless
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code – AWS CDK or CloudFormation
• Experience integrating with Auth0 or similar identity platforms
• Understanding of GDPR and secure handling of sensitive data

We are looking for a Tech Lead (PHP/Symfony, AWS) for a project for our client from the EdTech industry. If you want to lead a team, drive a modernisation on AWS, and be at the forefront of AI-empowered, spec-driven development, this role is a perfect match, apply and let's talk!

,[ Owning the technical delivery of the team's sprint commitments – ensuring accurate estimation, surfacing dependencies early, and escalating blockers fast in partnership with the Scrum Master, Working closely with the Product Owner to shape requirements, challenge scope, and translate the roadmap into a realistic technical plan, Mentoring engineers, leading by example in code reviews, and spreading knowledge across the team to avoid single-owner components, Designing, developing, and maintaining backend services and APIs with PHP and Symfony, staying hands-on (roughly half the time in the code), Driving the modernisation onto AWS – containerised workloads and, where it makes sense, serverless services such as Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, Diagnosing and resolving production issues using dashboards and CloudWatch logs and metrics, and owning bug triage with Product, Managing the data layer in RDS MySQL: designing schemas, analysing EXPLAIN plans, and optimising slow queries, Delivering secure, high-performing REST APIs, Championing AI Spec-Driven Development – writing specifications, orchestrating AI coding agents, and validating AI-generated code, Working in an Agile process and keeping Jira and Confluence up to date] Requirements: PHP, Symfony, Doctrine, MySQL, AWS, AWS CloudWatch, API Platform, phpspec, Behat, DynamoDB, API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Aurora Serverless, AWS SNS, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, Redis, EventBridge Tools: . Additionally: Long-term project and cooperation, International work environment, Great company atmosphere and culture, Growth & work life balance.