# Technical lead

> webook.com · Lisbon, Portugal · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-02

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Technology

## Description

**Do you want to love what you do at work? Make a real impact? Help shape experiences that transform how people connect, celebrate, and engage with events?**

Are you excited to work with a team that challenges the status quo, breaks away from the ordinary, and builds what's next?

If yes, you're in the right place.

**webook.com** is one of the leading event ticketing and experience platforms, known for its innovation, agility, and ability to scale. We've powered some of the largest events in the region, with over **2 billion SAR in ticket sales** and now we're expanding globally. 

**Key Responsibilities:** 

**Technical Leadership & Delivery** 

-   Act as the technical leader for your squad, owning system design, code quality, and engineering standards. 
-   Lead the design and implementation of scalable, reliable, and maintainable software solutions. 
-   Contribute hands-on to the codebase when needed, especially for complex or high-impact areas. 
-   Review code, guide architectural decisions, and ensure best practices in testing, documentation, and observability. 
-   Balance short-term delivery needs with long-term system health and sustainability.

**Team Enablement** 

-   Lead, mentor, and support software engineers, helping them grow technically and professionally. 
-   Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
-   Support onboarding and knowledge sharing within the team.
-   Provide clear technical direction while empowering engineers to make strong decisions. 

**Execution & Collaboration** 

-   Own end-to-end execution for your team’s deliverables, from planning to production.
-   Work closely with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions. 
-   Ensure alignment between product priorities, technical execution, and platform standards. 
-   Act as the first point of escalation for technical or delivery challenges within your team. 

**Operational Excellence** 

-   Ensure production readiness, performance, and reliability of owned services.
-   Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems.
-   Continuously improve development workflows, tooling, and team productivity.
-   Leverage AI and automation where possible to improve engineering efficiency and product quality. 

**Key Skills** 

-   Deep expertise in Laravel/PHP backend systems, with experience designing scalable, maintainable, and high-performance platforms. 
-   Solid knowledge of software development best practices, including code quality, testing, documentation, and observability. 
-   Deep understanding of large-scale, high-performance platforms, including SQL/NoSQL, caching, and concurrency. 
-   Strong strategic and operational planning skills, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system sustainability. 
-   Excellent written and verbal communication skills (fluent English speaking and writing). 
-   Experience in Scrum and Agile methodology 
-   Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), CI/CD pipelines, and containerized deployments is a plus.

## Requirements

-   3–5+ years of professional software engineering experience. 
-   Proven experience delivering high-traffic, mission-critical platforms.
-   Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 
-   Experience contributing to open-source projects or technical thought leadership is a plus.

## Apply

[Apply at webook.com](https://apply.workable.com/webook/j/60C90E92C4/apply)

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