Developer Team Leader

 

Recruiter:

Initiate International

Job Ref:

1633066002

Date posted:

Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Location:

Watford, Great Britain (UK), South Africa


JOB SUMMARY:
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JOB DESCRIPTION:

We have an exciting career opportunity for a Developer Team Lead to join a digital marketing and technology agency that specialises in online gaming at their offices in Watford, England. They are searching for a someone with a proven track record of technical leadership and who advocates clean, tested, scalable code. This is your chance to join a high-performing and welcoming team working in the exciting and fast-paced online gambling sector. Does this job sound like the perfect challenge for you? Keep reading!

Your key job responsibilities as the Developer Team Lead in Watford, England will include:

  • Making sure the team is engaged from the outset of projects by participating in the requirements gathering and planning phase of projects
  • Checking that the team proposes appropriate technical designs
  • Schedule the work internal to the team, resolving any conflicts of priority with stakeholders
  • Making sure the team builds technical solutions in accordance with the company’s and industries established standards and best practices
  • Identifying gaps within their team’s skills, process and technology and activity working to close them, escalating where appropriate to resolve
  • 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

Requirements for this Developer Team Lead job in Watford, England:

  • 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 and MySQL and writing efficient database queries
  • Hands-on experience with a range of different data storage paradigms (e.g. RDMS + Document + KV Stores)

Join this team and they shall support you with benefits including:

  • Competitive salary + annual bonus
  • Breakfast & lunch prepared by their team chef (and the occasional treat thrown in!)
  • Longevity bonuses, wellness incentive & company goal bonuses
  • Option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays
  • Free gym membership
  • Private healthcare for you and your family
  • A free parking space for those that drive to the office, or a short 5 minute walk from Watford Junction train station
  • 23 holiday days a year, with the option to buy / sell / rollover

 

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