Lead Web Developer

About us

Teleprompter.com is a Budapest-based SaaS company building teleprompter applications used by creators, professionals, and businesses around the world — across iOS, Android, Mac, and web. We're a small, senior team that values ownership, clean architecture, and shipping real value over busywork.

As Lead Web Developer you own the technical direction of both products end to end — backend domain logic, the React/Inertia frontend, real-time and AI integrations, and the delivery practices that keep a small team shipping fast without breaking production. You'll write code daily, set standards, review work, and mentor.

What you'll do

• Lead architecture and implementation across Laravel 12 (PHP 8.4) backends and React 19 / Inertia.js v2 / TypeScript frontends.
• Design and evolve domain logic using a Services/Actions architecture, Eloquent, Form Requests, and typed DTOs — keeping controllers thin and business logic testable.
• Build and scale real-time features: WebSocket broadcasting (Laravel Reverb / Echo / Pusher), presence, and live messaging.
• Integrate AI features responsibly (OpenAI / laravel/ai) — prompt design, streaming, cost and latency awareness.
• Drive performance: Laravel Octane / FrankenPHP, queues and background jobs, N+1 elimination, eager loading, caching.
• Build polished, accessible UIs with Tailwind, Radix UI / shadcn, SCSS modules, and rich-text editing (Plate), with SSR where it matters.
• Implement authentication and security: Sanctum, Fortify, Socialite OAuth, Firebase 2FA, reCAPTCHA, and sound session/permission handling (spatie/laravel-permission).
• Own quality: feature and unit tests (PHPUnit / Pest), end-to-end coverage (Playwright), and CI gates (Pint, ESLint, Prettier, Husky).
• Manage observability and operations: Sentry, Telescope, structured logging, and product analytics (Mixpanel).
• Set and enforce engineering conventions; review PRs; mentor developers and raise the team's bar.
• Partner with product and design to scope work, break it into shippable slices, and make pragmatic build/buy and technical-debt trade-offs.

Must-have qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating production web applications, with 1+ year in a lead or senior-with-ownership capacity.
• Deep Laravel and modern PHP (8.x) expertise: Eloquent, queues/jobs, events/broadcasting, validation, policies/gates, the service container.
• Strong React and TypeScript skills; comfortable with an Inertia.js (or equivalent SPA-over-server-routing) model.
• Solid SQL and relational data modeling; safe, reversible migrations and indexing discipline.
• Hands-on experience with real-time systems (WebSockets/broadcasting) in production.
• A genuine testing habit — you write feature, unit, and end-to-end tests as part of normal work.
• Fluency with Tailwind CSS and component-driven UI development.
• Strong Git workflow and code-review practice; clear technical communication.

Nice-to-have

• Multi-tenant SaaS architecture (e.g. stancl/tenancy).
• AI/LLM integration experience (OpenAI, streaming, prompt and cost engineering).
• High-performance PHP runtimes (Octane, FrankenPHP, Swoole/RoadRunner).
• Auth depth: OAuth/Socialite, Fortify/Sanctum, 2FA (Firebase), reCAPTCHA.
• Mobile-adjacent work: APNs push, OAuth/2FA flows shared with native clients, offline/local storage (IndexedDB).
• Rich-text editor work (Plate/Slate or similar) and i18n (i18next).
• DevOps: Docker, Caddy, S3/Flysystem, GitHub Actions, queue workers, observability (Sentry/Telescope).
• Background in video tooling or customer-support / messaging products.

Our stack

Backend: Laravel 12 · PHP 8.4 · Octane / FrankenPHP · MySQL · Redis/queues · Reverb · Sanctum · Fortify · Socialite · spatie/laravel-{permission,data,enum} · OpenAI / laravel/ai · S3 (Flysystem) · Postmark · APNs · Sentry · Telescope · Mixpanel

Frontend: React 19 · Inertia.js v2 · TypeScript · Vite (+ SSR) · Tailwind CSS · SCSS modules · Radix UI / shadcn · Plate · react-hook-form + Zod · i18next

Quality & tooling: PHPUnit · Pest · Playwright · Pint · ESLint · Prettier · Husky · Docker · GitHub Actions

How we work

• Small, high-ownership team — leads ship code and set direction, not just attend meetings.
• Tests and CI gate every change; we value evidence over "should work."
• Clean architecture (SOLID, separation of concerns), consistent conventions, and reviewed PRs.
• Pragmatic trade-offs: ship value, manage debt deliberately, keep production healthy.

What we offer

• Real technical ownership — you shape architecture and direction, not just execute tickets
• A modern, well-maintained stack (Laravel, React, TypeScript) — no legacy firefighting
• A small, senior team where your voice directly shapes the product and engineering culture
• Office location - Central Budapest
• 2–3 flexible home office days per week
• Non-smoking workplace