Software Technical Lead

📍Manchester (Hybrid, up to 4 days WFH) | 💰 £60k-70k

Street Group is one of the fastest-growing PropTech companies in the UK. We want to be the leading creator of delightful experiences for everybody involved in buying, selling, renting and letting property, regardless of their involvement, to improve the industry for everybody by elevating UK Estate Agencies through world-class technology.

Street.co.uk is our game-changing CRM: a truly modern estate agency platform, creating a next-level digital experience for customers, putting transparency, user experience and beautiful design at the heart of our industry.

We’re seeking an experienced and driven Tech Lead to join our dynamic, forward-thinking team and help shape the future of innovation in the proptech space. This is a unique opportunity to work hands-on with a small but highly skilled cross-functional team, developing cutting-edge software and building scalable systems that meet and exceed the needs of our clients.

As a Tech Lead, you’ll be at the forefront of our development efforts, driving progress and fostering innovation. You’ll lead a collaborative team through discovery and ideation, working closely with designers, product owners, and engineers to prioritise challenges, develop creative solutions, and deliver impactful results iteratively.

If you love autonomy, are naturally curious, and want to have a genuine impact within a growing company, we think you’d fit right in!

Here’s what you can expect to be working on as a Technical Lead at Street Group

• Supporting, leading and coaching a small but highly talented cross-functional team.
• Being hands-on with building a best-in-class piece of software.
• Being a driving force behind best programming practices and taking your team on that journey with you.
• Collaborating closely with our in-house teams, our customers, and commercial colleagues in the business in order to build the best product we can.
• Working at scale, building tools, systems, and features for our clients.
• Staying hands-on while managing systems architecture with a strong backend focus.

A bit about you

• You’re an experienced Tech Lead who has strong expertise in PHP JavaScript and Laravel.
• You’ll have hands-on experience with Cloud architecture (AWS and/or GCP preferred).
• You’re a passionate advocate for best practices including Agile, TDD and OOP.
• You’ll ideally have experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• You’ll have the confidence to lead technical conversations, balance commercial needs, and maintain a collaborative, startup-like agility.
• Experience with distributed systems and the design of scalable, high-performing architectures would be advantageous in driving our success as we continue to grow and innovate.
• You care about empowering your team and working together to find the best solutions.

Why join Street Group?

🏠 Hybrid-working - you can work from home up to 4 days per week

🏖️ Guilt-Free R&R - £1000 towards a holiday after your first year with the team (we'll even cover the tax!)

💪 Joining a culture that supports your development and encourages growth

📚 £500 yearly L&D budget for your career development

🎂 Your birthday on us - we pay, you stay away

🙋 ‘Give something back’ - 2 paid days volunteering on us

👶 Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption pay

🧠 Mental health & well-being support via Health Assured

🧘 Regular well-being initiatives

🕒 Flexible working hours

🚂 Public transport season ticket loans

🌷 Paid menopause leave

🌞 Holiday buying scheme

🚀 Joining a new team in an exciting business with huge ambition

👥 Be a part of something bigger - everyone in our team is passionate about improving the entire property industry! It's a huge goal, but it motivates us to do better every single day

👩🏿‍💻 A chance to work on cutting-edge technology

🐶 Comfortable, relaxed office space - office dogs welcome!

🍻 Fully stocked fridge and beers (or an alternative) on us every Friday afternoon

🎊 Company and team off-sites, events and happy hours

🚴 Cycle to work scheme

🚗 Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

🌍 Feel good about sustainability - we're a climate-positive company!

Research has shown that women tend to rule themselves out of applying for jobs unless they meet 100% of the requirements. If you fall into that category and were about to rule yourself out based on the above criteria; please consider applying anyway. We'd love to see your application!

Salary

£60,000-£70,000 dependent on experience. However, sometimes the perfect person is far more or less experienced than we anticipated. In these situations planned ranges go out the window. If you think that might be the case, please apply and just let us know.

We care deeply about helping the tech industry become a more inclusive and diverse place and we work hard to lead by example. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and be able to perform the work specified.

🕧 Interview Process: 3 stages = An introductory call with one of our Talent team > Technical Task > Technical Interview with the Head of Engineering > Final interview with our Co-Founder and Head of Product.

We want to make our interviews as inclusive as possible, so if you need any adjustments made, or if there's anything you think we should be aware of during the interview process, please do let us know.