Technical Lead.

Who are we looking for

We’re on the look out for a hands-on person with an interest in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications. You will be working directly with the co-founders and the development team and the role will encompass some development, architecture and management duties. You must be well-versed in all things PHP and Laravel, have a good understanding and demonstrable experience of best practices around TDD and CI/CD. Most of all, you will have an aptitude for and willingness to learn.

The role will give you an opportunity to work as part of a collaborative Laravel studio team, who deliver stunning projects for startups and large enterprises alike. We are an exciting, cutting edge company who can offer you the chance to work on a diverse range of projects from bespoke web applications to highly complex products.

What will the role involve?

As the technical lead you will have oversight of all the current projects and be available to help advise and guide the development teams throughout the project lifecycle. You will work closely with the project managers and developers to see projects through to sign off and to help identify how we can improve our current work processes. We believe we’re doing a lot of things right but we also know that there is always room for improvement, so we work together as a team to continuously improve processes for everyone.

You will be involved with the whole project lifecycle from initial client meetings to writing project specifications and taking part in discovery phases of work. You will translate the findings to technical documentation that the development team can use to develop applications.

You will be responsible for solution architecture, the management and leadership of the development team and engaging with non-technical people on the client-side to ensure the products we build are aligned with business objectives.

We like to get involved in the local community and want someone who’s keen to join in on those activities. We set aside time each month to work on these internal projects and tools, such as https://brumtechtapas.co.uk . We have a stack of ideas we want to develop and we want to work on yours too.

The role is remote-based but you will need to be in the UK, as we visit some of our clients occasionally. As the world returns back to some form of normality, there might be the odd occasion when you need to come into our central Birmingham office for in-person working sessions or a good old-fashioned team get together.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the successful delivery of projects, whilst inspiring and helping  developers to achieve their potential.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and governance to the team to ensure the software solutions are implemented according to the solution design.
• Lead architectural reviews, feasibility studies, impact assessments and other technical investigations.
• Drive the team to quality outcomes through collaboration.
• Define the technical direction for the team and lead through doing.
• Be responsible for end-to-end architecture across a range of domains and create the strategy and roadmap to address the long-term planning of technologies.
• Work with the project manager, peers and stakeholders to define end-to-end organisational solution concepts, scope, design and roadmaps.
• Resolve complex development problems.
• Review unit tests and PRs to ensure high quality delivery.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + public holidays
• The day off on your birthday
• MacBook Pro and the equipment you would require to work remotely
• Spotify membership
• % matched for the company pension
• A £500 annual training budget
• Access to the team Laracasts subscription
• The Jump24 Library
• After 5 years of service, you will be given an extra 10 days annual leave for that year to mark the occasion.