Remote Head of Development

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Job Title: Remote Head of Development (100% Work From Home) 

Location: Remote from Latin America

Position Type: Full-time 

Salary: $8,000 – $12,000 USD/month (Calibrated precisely to leadership tenure, multi-team management experience, and architectural depth).

Schedule: Full-time, Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM US Eastern Time (EST). Active operational alignment with international executive leadership and distributed engineering units during these core hours is required.    

About Our Client

Our Client is a premier, market-leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider powering the global vehicle and equipment rental industries. Trusted by over 1,300 international enterprises, their high-velocity cloud platform is celebrated globally for its flexibility, architectural innovation, and commitment to empowering independent operators to run streamlined corporate fleets. Backed by excellent user ratings and accelerating market share, the firm is expanding its engineering core to support heavy transaction scaling and cross-border feature deployments.

The Role

  Our Client is seeking a vision-driven, operationally rigorous Head of Development to take complete organizational ownership of their engineering division. Built on a robust PHP architecture utilizing the Laravel framework, the platform requires an engineering leader who balances high-level systemic strategy with tactical delivery oversight. Leading multiple distributed Agile pods, the successful candidate will own the technical roadmap, design next-generation CI/CD pipelines, optimize database scalability, and instill a high-performance culture characterized by strict code quality standards and continuous individual mentorship.  

Key Responsabilities

 

Agile Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Commands and synchronizes multiple distributed Agile engineering teams, driving predictable delivery cadences for global enterprise SaaS products.

• Optimizes software development lifecycles (SDLC) by systematically improving cycle times, lowering escape-defect rates, and maintaining peak team resource allocation.

• Runs standing engineering cadences, eliminating workflow blockers, and ensuring technical sprint goals align precisely with corporate product milestones.

Architecture, Scalability & Infrastructure Modernization

• Steers cross-team architectural reviews, formulating long-term blueprints to minimize technical debt, optimize query indexing, and enhance system maintainability.

• Formulates and deploys modern CI/CD pipelines, integrating advanced automated testing, containerization matrixes, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions.

• Elevates system resilience, cloud infrastructure scalability, and platform observability parameters across multi-tenant environments.

Engineering Governance & Team Growth

• Establishes and enforces best-in-class engineering standards, managing standardized pull request (PR) code review frameworks, modular Git branching models, and data security gates.

• Cultivates technical talent from junior to senior ranks, building clear, objective career tracks focused on architectural autonomy and promotion readiness.

• Serves as the premier cross-functional technical translator, communicating complex systems logic transparently to both engineering staff and non-technical business executives.

  Required Qualifications  

• Engineering Leadership Background: 5+ years of verified professional success leading, scaling, and managing multiple distributed Agile software engineering teams within a global SaaS environment.

• Core Stack Mastery: Advanced hands-on technical depth within PHP and the Laravel framework, demonstrating mature judgment regarding object-oriented programming, design patterns, and package ecosystems.

• Modern DevSecOps Tooling: Documented competence designing containerized environments, setting up automated staging tests, and managing production cloud deployments.

• Standards & Observability Governance: Proven experience introducing code profiling, logging pipelines, and automated security checks into scaling engineering ecosystems.

• Language & Presentation Elite: Near-native or fully fluent English communication skills (C2 level). The candidate must excel at leading live international standups, technical briefings, and executive strategy sessions.

• Workplace Infrastructure: Ownership of a high-performance developer hardware array, a dedicated and private remote home office workspace, and a stable, high-speed internet pipeline with structural power redundancies.

  Preferred Qualifications    

• Technical exposure scaling databases or caching layers for high-concurrency booking, scheduling, or real-time inventory tracking applications.

• Prior experience managing technical operations for high-volume logistics, mobility, fleet management, or automotive digital commerce platforms.

  Benefits  

• Executive Compensation Structure: A premium monthly contractor salary package ranging from $8,000 to $12,000 USD, mapped directly to structural impact and technical expertise.

• Substantial Technical Directorship: Command complete ownership over the architectural evolution of a globally recognized SaaS platform serving over 1,300 companies.

• 100% Remote Sovereignty: Execute your role entirely from your home office during dedicated Eastern Time business blocks, backed by an autonomous, low-bureaucracy organizational infrastructure.

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Your application CANNOT be considered without a voice or video recording. It must be at least 30 seconds long and in English. Submissions in any other language or missing a recording will be automatically disqualified.   Mandatory Knockout Questions
Each application includes knockout questions designed to verify minimum qualifications required by the client. If you answer "NO" to any of these, you will be immediately disqualified from the hiring process for not having the experience requested for the role. Please note that the citizenship question is also a knockout if you answer "YES" as we are only able to hire Latin American talent based in Latin America.
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