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.