Lead PHP Developer (AI, Ecommerce, Best-Practice)
UK Remote Working
£70000 - £85000 + Equity

Please note my client cannot offer VISA sponsorship for this position.

Your new company
I am working to recruit an experienced PHP Development Team Lead for a hyper-growth business in the UK as they look to expand globally. It's a really unique opportunity working for an online, technology first organisation that are looking to challenge the leading names in Ecommerce. This role will be split 80% hands-on and 20% leadership/mentoring.

The role is offered fully remote but you must be within the UK and must not require any form of Visa Sponsorship to apply.

Your new role
The Development team has mirrored the general pattern in the company; grow quickly, iterate, have fun, make an impact. As they've scaled over the last year Development squads have been formed so you'll join a team of 4-5 to ensure everyone is focussed and to provide a progression path for all.

This company operates like a start-up but with a product that's been in Development for 10+ years. You will understand there is some legacy/maintenance as part of the role building on a custom monolith - but will be empowered to go into the role and drive the incremental changes to modernise and drives new standards, moving to the company to be a destination employer for PHP Devs nationally. New features and developments will be built on Laravel/microservices.

Under the guidance of a new Head of Development the team have invested heavily in software best practice and development processes so it's an exciting environment to be joining as they move into new territories globally and launch a mobile app.

To fit in here you'll collaborate openly with other Devs, enjoy problem solving and will buy into the vision of the company to disrupt and become number 1 in their field.

What you'll need to succeed
We're looking for a trailblazer in the Development space and you'll be the go-to technical person in the team. An expert in PHP, passionate about AI / Automation and a deep product engineering background - you must have made a meaningful impact on SaaS products.

A hands-on technical leader (2 years or more in a Lead Dev role) responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality PHP8 code, managing backend services and APIs, and optimising system performance. 10 years of programming experience as a minimum both with core PHP and supporting Laravel microservices. This role will be split 80% hands-on and 20% leadership/mentoring, you will be a standard bearer for development best practice.

Experience building RESTful API's and working with MySQL is essential, and desirable skills include GCP Cloud, RabbitMQ, NoSQL and TDD/Microservices exposure.

If you've worked on large scale Ecommerce applications with multiple service calls and databases that would be standout, as would experience working in Agile squads.

What you'll get in return
The company offers equity in the business to all employees to share in their mission. There is good flexibility both in terms of working hours and remote working (within the UK). There's no micromanagement here and you'll get 26 days holiday + bank holidays and funding for technical courses/training. The company have bi-annual socials to meet and celebrate success and annual pay reviews.

What you need to do now
To find out more and to be considered for this position please apply directly, or contact Max Wilcock, Senior Business Director on 0333 010 5724.

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