· Lead and mentor engineering teams through coaching and career development.

· Own end-to-end delivery of engineering initiatives with predictable, high-quality releases.

· Drive architecture reviews, code quality, testing, CI/CD, and DevOps best practices.

· Collaborate with Product, QA, and stakeholders to prioritize and execute the roadmap.

· Monitor engineering metrics, SLA compliance, production stability, and operational excellence.

· Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

· Promote the use of AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, code quality, testing, and documentation.

· Support hiring, onboarding, and resource planning.

· Strong experience with PHP/Laravel or similar backend frameworks.

· Good understanding of Nodejs (preferred).

· Experience with React or Vue.js.

· Strong knowledge of REST APIs, MySQL/PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, CI/CD, and Agile.

· Technical Leadership

· People Management

· Delivery Management

· Strategic Thinking

· Stakeholder Management

· Continuous Improvement

· Deliver roadmap commitments with predictable, high-quality releases while maintaining platform stability and SLA compliance.

· Build and develop high-performing engineering teams through mentoring, resource planning, AI adoption, and continuous process improvement.