Lead PHP Developer for Ambitious E-Commerce Expansion

1 day ago


Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Spectrum It Recruitment Limited Full time

We're on a mission to conquer the e-commerce market with our sights set on taking sizeable market share from the biggest names in the industry. Our rapidly growing development team is looking for a dynamic Lead PHP Developer to drive productivity as we expand our operations internationally.

As a high-paced, growth mindset business, we're always pushing the boundaries of what's possible. With technology at the core of everything we do, we need a hands-on, PHP team lead who can head up one of our engineering teams and make key decisions on architecture and structure of the code.

The role will be 80% hands-on development and 20% technical leadership, running sprints for a small team of 5/6 engineers. Your responsibilities will include:

  1. Leading the development sprints ensuring your team consistently delivers against objectives on time
  2. Making key decisions on architecture and structure of the code
  3. Promoting good development practices within your sprint team (TDD, Unit Testing, SOLID)
  4. Managing your team's productivity and reporting on this to the Head of Engineering
  5. Direct line management for a sprint team of 5 people, 3x Developers, 1x Product, 1x QA
  6. Conducting code reviews across the team

You'll need to have:

  • 7+ years of PHP software engineering experience and highly skilled in writing good quality PHP code
  • 1+ year of technical leadership or project leadership managing deadlines and delivering on time
  • Experience mentoring and/or managing more junior developers and conducting code reviews
  • Experience working in a high-paced, growth mindset business
  • Ability to manage the delicate balance of coding standards vs key deadlines
  • Ability to manage key stakeholders both internally and externally with investors
  • A get it done mentality and comfortable working to tight deadlines
  • Possession and passion for driving business growth

In return, you'll receive:

  • A competitive salary of £75,000 per annum
  • Fully remote working environment (UK based candidates only)
  • Highly valuable share options
  • Opportunity to work with a talented team on a mission to disrupt the e-commerce industry


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