Laravel Technical Lead

You will take ownership of the Laravel technical roadmap, supported by technical workshops with the delivery teams to determine future solutions and scope. You will take responsibility for the library of appropriate technical documentation housed within our product suite. This should include testing notes, baseline structure references and links to policy documents.

As technical lead you will champion best practice in terms of making sure things are well tested, properly reviewed, that pull requests leave a useful trail for the next person, and the DevOps tasks are kept up to date.

A significant portion of your time will be spent mentoring, reviewing work that has been implemented and writing requirements for developers. This is either from scratch or adding suitable technical information to existing requirements. Typically, a requirement will contain information about what the piece of work is and why it’s being done, plus some useful context and background to help anybody pick it up, and sometimes a prescriptive acceptance criteria/definition of done.

You will work with the solutions architect(s), project manager(s) and within the context of your team to identify potential technical work that is relevant for the team. You will also advise on the technical direction or how potential work fits within the wider technical architecture of existing projects.

You will help the developers on the team with their work either by pointing them towards people who are knowledgeable and would be able to help, or by providing your own knowledge in the form of pairing or answering questions.

Technical Expertise

-       Laravel Framework

-       Composer

-       Jquery

-       MySQL

-       GIT

-       API integration

-       Docker (containers)

Soft Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in a Lead Developer or similar role.
• Proficiency with DevOps or similar for project and team management.
• Excellent mentoring skills, with a strong focus on supporting and developing junior developers.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, capable of fostering collaboration across the team.