Candy Sonic Music
Technical Lead
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This role is a Technical Lead for a music industry subscription platform, offering a fixed-fee contract with weekly or bi-weekly payments. Key skills include Laravel/PHP, SQL, web security, and deployment experience. Remote work is available.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
April 24, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Remote
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Los Angeles, CA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#BI (Business Intelligence) #Data Access #Migration #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #GIT #PHP #Cybersecurity #Security #Deployment #Data Integrity #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Schema Design #Databases #Strategy #GitHub
Role description
About Candy Sonic LLC
Candy Sonic LLC is building a music industry subscription platform with a Laravel/PHP backend. We’re currently developing features and need an experienced engineer to ensure the system is secure, correct, and deployable, including auth, authorization, SQL/database work, and secure engineering practices.
Because we’re using an AI-assisted development workflow, we specifically need someone who can act as a technical quality gate reviewing, fixing, and implementing improvements when required.
Role Summary
You will work on a contract basis with periodic check-ins (weekly or every two weeks). During each cycle, you will:
- review changes (SQL/database + backend logic),
- verify authentication/authorization correctness,
- assess security risks and fixes,
- review hosting/deployment approach (we deploy via GitHub, currently on a VPS),
- and implement code changes directly in Laravel/PHP.
You may also be asked to build entire features when needed.
Responsibilities
- Laravel/PHP backend development (implement fixes/features as assigned)
- SQL & database correctness
- review migrations, schema design, and query logic
- ensure data integrity and prevent risky data access patterns
- help with performance improvements where relevant
- Authentication & Authorization review
- confirm secure login/session handling
- enforce permissions/roles correctly on the backend (not only in the UI)
- Cybersecurity review & secure coding
- identify vulnerabilities (OWASP-style thinking)
- recommend and implement mitigations
- ensure sensitive data handling is safe
- Deployment & hosting guidance
- review current VPS hosting and environment setup
- validate GitHub-based deployment workflow
- recommend better approaches (CI/CD, staging, secrets handling, rollback strategy, etc.)
- Provide clear notes after each cycle:
- what was fixed,
- what risks remain (if any),
- and the next actions/recommendations
Requirements
- Strong experience with Laravel / PHP backend development
- Strong understanding of web security, especially:
- authentication + authorization
- common OWASP risks
- secure session/data handling
- Strong database/SQL experience (migrations, query correctness, integrity, performance basics)
- Experience with deployment/hosting for web apps (VPS and Git-based workflows)
- Able to communicate effectively in English and work independently
Contract & Compensation
- Fixed-fee contract, paid weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly (as agreed)
- Clear scope per cycle (review + fixes; and sometimes feature implementation)
- We’ll define deliverables and response expectations during onboarding
About Candy Sonic LLC
Candy Sonic LLC is building a music industry subscription platform with a Laravel/PHP backend. We’re currently developing features and need an experienced engineer to ensure the system is secure, correct, and deployable, including auth, authorization, SQL/database work, and secure engineering practices.
Because we’re using an AI-assisted development workflow, we specifically need someone who can act as a technical quality gate reviewing, fixing, and implementing improvements when required.
Role Summary
You will work on a contract basis with periodic check-ins (weekly or every two weeks). During each cycle, you will:
- review changes (SQL/database + backend logic),
- verify authentication/authorization correctness,
- assess security risks and fixes,
- review hosting/deployment approach (we deploy via GitHub, currently on a VPS),
- and implement code changes directly in Laravel/PHP.
You may also be asked to build entire features when needed.
Responsibilities
- Laravel/PHP backend development (implement fixes/features as assigned)
- SQL & database correctness
- review migrations, schema design, and query logic
- ensure data integrity and prevent risky data access patterns
- help with performance improvements where relevant
- Authentication & Authorization review
- confirm secure login/session handling
- enforce permissions/roles correctly on the backend (not only in the UI)
- Cybersecurity review & secure coding
- identify vulnerabilities (OWASP-style thinking)
- recommend and implement mitigations
- ensure sensitive data handling is safe
- Deployment & hosting guidance
- review current VPS hosting and environment setup
- validate GitHub-based deployment workflow
- recommend better approaches (CI/CD, staging, secrets handling, rollback strategy, etc.)
- Provide clear notes after each cycle:
- what was fixed,
- what risks remain (if any),
- and the next actions/recommendations
Requirements
- Strong experience with Laravel / PHP backend development
- Strong understanding of web security, especially:
- authentication + authorization
- common OWASP risks
- secure session/data handling
- Strong database/SQL experience (migrations, query correctness, integrity, performance basics)
- Experience with deployment/hosting for web apps (VPS and Git-based workflows)
- Able to communicate effectively in English and work independently
Contract & Compensation
- Fixed-fee contract, paid weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly (as agreed)
- Clear scope per cycle (review + fixes; and sometimes feature implementation)
- We’ll define deliverables and response expectations during onboarding
