Development Team Lead
1 month ago
Our client is a technology and marketing company. They build and maintain the platform for an online gaming client specialising in slot games and bingo games
They are searching for an experienced Team Lead to join the expanding team, taking on a leadership role within their technical function and reporting directly to the Head of Technology. You will be working in a highly focused yet friendly development function,leading a team of 5-6 developers. You will have a high level of ownership and be responsible for driving the technical strategy of your product areas whilst delivering on the commercial goals of the product. their aim is to become a best-in-class softwareengineering company and they need a Team Lead like you who is committed to collaborative problem solving, clean code, creating high quality products and leading high functioning teams. You will provide technical direction to your team and work closely withbusiness stakeholders to drive improvements in the technology, processes and ways of working.
Key Responsibilities:
Planning
Making sure the team is engaged from the outset of projects by participating in the requirements gathering and planning phase of projects
Making sure the team proposes appropriate technical designs
Making sure the team strives to provide accurate estimates for the effort required
Schedule the work internal to the team, resolving any conflicts of priority with stakeholders
Execution:
Making sure the team builds technical solutions in accordance with the company's and industries established standards and best practices
Making sure that the team's technical solutions are fit for purpose in the context of complex, high-throughput / high-availability system
Making sure the team follows an effective SDLC in accordance with the company's
established best practices to provide a solution that the team is confident in
Managing risks and exceptions to the delivery by communicating them to appropriate stakeholders in a timely manner
Making sure the team delivers the solution into production
Making sure the team delivers within the time frame it has committed to
Monitoring and Maintenance:
Making sure the team has visibility into their system with appropriate monitoring and alarming
Making sure that the team is proactive in spotting production issues
Making sure the team is capable of being appropriately notified when issues arise in production
Making sure the team is equipped to respond and resolve production issues as they arise
Making sure that the team is investing in reducing technical debt
Instilling Growth and Ownership:
Making sure the team has the appropriate skills, processes, and capacity to plan and deliver their work and support their systems
Identifying gaps within their team's skills, process and technology and activity working to close them, escalating where appropriate to resolve
Working actively to grow the competencies of your the team through identifying each individual's needs and providing support through setting up mentoring, pairing teammates etc. to enable skills and knowledge transfer
Required Behaviours:
- To be passionate about writing clean, tested and scalable code
- To be able to establish and promote best practices within teams
- To be a strong collaborator and comfortable working in an agile, cross-discipline environment
- To understand and contribute to product goals/priorities
- To be flexible, and comfortable adapting to changing priorities
- To be interested in keeping up-to-date with the latest technological development
- To be interested in understanding the full domain and other platforms which might not be your area of expertise
Your Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in PHP
- 3+ years in senior engineering or architect level role
- 2+ years in a leadership role
- Commercial use of a modern PHP development framework such as Laravel / Symfony desired
- Writing automated unit/integration tests for solutions
- Ability to build/maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Excellent practical experience of docker
- Excellent experience of SCM branching strategies
- Excellent practical understanding of SOLID principles and design patterns
- Hands-on experience with one or more DevOps tooling platforms
- Hands on experience engineering on high availability, high throughput OLTP platforms
Nice to have:
- 10+ years database experience, ideally with MySQL
- Good understanding of relational databases and MySQL and writing efficient database queries
- Hands-on experience with a range of different data storage paradigms (e.g. RDMS + Document + KV Stores)
They promote a highly collaborative atmosphere. They are a medium-sized company with a start-up culture, cultivating an open-door policy and inclusive work environment throughout all levels of the organisation. Their goal is to listen to the needs of theemployees and then implement their ideas into the business, allowing you to make a positive impact every day. They believe that every employee forms an integral part of the organisation and they seek to empower the team to deliver the best results alongsidetheir career and development goals.
We cant offer sponsorship for this role.
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