PHP Tech Lead - Watford - Hybrid Working - Online Gaming - £90,000 - £100,000 + Fantastic Benefits

Overview:

Our client, are leading online gaming organisation based in Watford, Hertfordshire and are looking for an experienced PHP Team Leader to join their growing team and to help build this start-up-feel business in to enterprise level environment in their brand new modern offices. You can expect a supportive and hard-working environment with a strong sense of teamwork and camaraderie. You will role model the company values and lead the development of a culture of quality in the team.

The role will provide leadership within the Technical function and will report directly to the Head of Technology. The team is made from 5-6 Developers and you will be working in a highly focused development function. You will have a high level of ownership and will be responsible for driving the technical strategy of your product areas whilst delivering on the commercial goals of the product.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the team is engaged from the outset of projects by participating in the requirements gathering and planning phase of projects.

• The team proposes appropriate technical designs.

• Making sure the team builds technical solutions in accordance with the company's and industries established standards and best practices.

• Ensuring that the team's technical solutions are fit for purpose in the context of complex, high-throughput / high-availability system.

• Making sure the team is capable of being appropriately notified when issues arise in production.

• Making sure the team has the appropriate skills, processes, and capacity to plan and deliver their work and support their systems.

• 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.

Essential Skills & 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

• 10+ years database experience, ideally with MySQL

• Good understanding of relational databases

• Hands-on experience with a range of different data storage paradigms (e.g. RDMS + Document + KV Stores)

Package:

•£90,000 - £100,000

• Hybrid working + Flexible working hours

• Free Private healthcare

• Free Gym membership

• Free Parking