PHP Team Lead

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Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent professional experience.

Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines and provide clear technical feedback.

3+ years of professional PHP development, backend engineering, code review, QA, mentoring, or related workflows.

Strong understanding of PHP 8+, OOP, namespaces, Composer, autoloading, arrays, exceptions, type declarations, sessions, REST APIs, database access, and error handling.

Ability to evaluate PHP content and identify issues such as non-executable code, insecure SQL handling, weak validation, flawed logic, outdated syntax, hallucinated APIs, or incomplete explanations.

Familiarity with Laravel, Symfony, PHPUnit, Pest, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, GitHub, CI/CD, static analysis tools, and PSR standards is preferred.

Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, engineers, or QAs is strongly preferred.

Comfortable with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, GitHub, and PM systems.

Highly organized and able to maintain documentation, style guides, trackers, FAQs, calibration tasks, and honeypots.

Experience with AI training, LLM evaluation, code QA, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.

Spot-check PHP items and provide ongoing feedback through DMs.

Review AI-generated PHP code, backend snippets, debugging responses, API examples, database logic, and tests.

Update trainers/QAs on Discord about guideline changes and PHP-specific quality standards.

Answer questions around PHP syntax, frameworks, runtime behavior, security, testing, and rubric interpretation.

Activate inactive contributors through DMs and follow-up tracking.

Create and maintain PHP documentation, style guides, examples, trackers, FAQs, honeypots, and onboarding materials.

Run onboarding/training calls for PHP trainers and QAs.

Flag insecure, outdated, misleading, or non-production-ready PHP recommendations.

Identify recurring quality gaps and improve QA processes.