Your Role and Responsibilities:

As a Technical Lead, your role is split between balancing quality assurance, hands-on development, planning, and team management.

• Oversee a product team dedicated to enhancing and evolving the platform.
• Collaborate with the Product team to design solutions and prioritise tasks for optimal impact.
• Aim to deliver straightforward and secure solutions across the technology stack, considering their long-term architectural implications.
• Support and mentor engineers within your team.
• Promote excellence throughout the platform.
• Manage and develop a team of three direct reports.
• Contribute to broader technology decisions and share achievements with the organisation.

This role is ideal for you if…

• You can manage your team’s roadmap and consider the needs of various stakeholders.
• You are empathetic and dedicated to continuously improving your team and direct reports.
• You strive to maximise your impact in both your work and how you allocate your time.
• You are passionate about enhancing your team’s quality at every stage of development.
• You recognise the importance of various testing methods and advocate for frequent, incremental releases that add long-term value to the platform.
• You are comfortable collaborating with others and independently tackling complex coding challenges.
• You prioritise security and ensure your team adheres to secure practices.
• You are committed to continuous learning and have a growth-oriented mindset.
• You are interested in using AI to boost your productivity and the quality of your work.

Essential Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience as a Lead Developer or Technical Lead.
• Successful history of working with product companies to build and maintain long-term platforms.
• Strong technical expertise in PHP, MySQL, and AWS.
• Proficiency in developing scalable systems using modern technologies such as Apache/Nginx, Varnish, Cloudflare, and AWS.
• Experience with quality assurance tools such as PHPUnit and PHPStan.

Desirable Requirements:

• Zend Framework / Laminas / Mezzio (other PHP frameworks accepted)
• CloudFormation
• AWS RDS
• jQuery

Benefits Package

• Annual Profit Share: Employees receive a share of the company's profits based on its overall growth.
• Generous Leave: Staff benefit from 25 days of holiday plus public holidays.
• Work-Life Balance: The company values employees' evenings and weekends, ensuring ample time to rest and recharge. They offer 25 days of holiday, excluding public holidays, which they strongly encourage everyone to utilise.
• Social and Team Events: There are regular opportunities for employees to connect with colleagues through social and team events.
• Flexible Working: The company’s flexible working policy permits 2-3 days of remote work per week and includes core working hours, allowing employees to start later or leave earlier as needed.
• Autonomy and Trust: The organization promotes self-directed work and celebrates independent thinking, avoiding micromanagement.
• Learning and Development: An annual learning budget of £500 is provided, and knowledge sharing is encouraged during weekly team highlights meetings.
• Quarterly Celebrations: The company celebrates team achievements every quarter.
• Wellness Support: Employees receive a self-care allowance of £300 annually for fitness, massages, mindfulness, and more, in addition to private healthcare that includes access to therapy.