Technical Team Lead

**Technical Team Lead** **Locations**:Rest of UK, DE, HU **Salary band**: £53,000 -> £68,000 _(depending on experience)_ **The role**: We are looking for a PHP Technical Team Lead to join our talented engineering team. A TTL at Inviqa takes overall responsibility for the technical output of a project. They help architect the solution, make key technical decisions and look after the wellbeing and growth of their engineering team. Over time at Inviqa you can experience a variety of projects from Drupal deployments, to Magento shop builds and bespoke microservice architectures. We try to match projects to our engineers skill-sets but equally we like to give you the chance to take on new domains. At Inviqa we pride ourselves on delivering solutions to complex client challenges and our TTLs embody that expertise to our clients. **How you will spend your time**: You join projects at the start, ideally in a project discovery to understand the domain, build trust with the client, help define and approach and produce estimates for delivery. Once into delivery mode you will set up the project and onboard the team that you helped pick for the project. You’ll guide them on work to be done and help manage their throughput. We also encourage our TTLs to take on line management of other engineers. You will lead and join ceremonies including stand-ups, weekly checkpoints, retrospectives, and client steering. In addition to all of this you will be doing some coding You’ll balance your time between real hands-on coding, and pairing with the other members of your team, as a mentor and to help guide the direction of the project. 50% of your billable time on coding is common. Inviqa employees work across the UK and mainland Europe. We support both office and remote working. In such an environment clear and regular communication is key. You will also get involved in wider community activities and events such as knowledge sharing sessions, code practices, and community discussions. We also host internal conferences (ICON) and hack days. In future there may be occasional travel from your chosen office for client meetings, a team catch-up, or to celebrate successes with your remote colleagues. **What we want from you**: At Inviqa we pride ourselves on cultivating a positive working environment. As such, we’re looking for people who are: - Passionate and proactive: you care about doing the best job possible and can make recommendations on our technical approach and how we work together. - A team player: you love being part of a team and working towards common goals. You are approachable, empathetic towards your peers, and open-minded about their ideas. - A good communicator: you can communicate clearly in English to your team and clients. - Multi-tasker: The ability to context-switch, though we will try and minimise this so you can focus on your current tasks. **As a Technical Team Lead you should be able to**: - Setup and manage project repositories, and with the support of our DevOps team, a deployment and CI pipeline. - Establish and document technical standards for your project based on our engineering guidelines. - Plan a go-live taking into consideration aspects such as site migration, redirection, downtime, load-testing **Your working style is also important, you will need to**: - Prioritise the unblocking of your team for maximum throughput and high team morale - Get involved in spikes regularly to work through unknowns and complexities - Take ownership of your team and the client deliverables - Form strong and healthy partnerships with project managers and our client success team to communicate progress and concerns clearly and early. For more about what we expect from our engineers and how we support engineering progression, see Inviqa’s Engineering Progression Framework. **Our technology**: At Inviqa we work on a wide variety of exciting client projects; there’s no single stack. However, these are the dominant tools we use and you could get the chance to work with: **Languages**:PHP | Javascript | Golang | TypeScript | CSS **Frameworks & Libs**: Symfony | Node.js | React | Storybook **Platforms**: Magento | Drupal | Spryker | Sylius | BigCommerce | Contentful | Algolia **Testing**: Behat | PHPSpec | PHPUnit | Jest | Cypress **CI / CD**:Docker | Scrutinizer | Blackfire | Codeship | Prometheus | ArgoCD | Jenkins **Hosting**: AWS | DigitalOcean | Platform.sh | Acquia See our Tech Radar for a more comprehensive list of technologies we are working with. Although our work varies, we strive to build consistently high-quality products: - We follow Agile principles through Scrum and Lean Kanban. - We have Engineering Guidelines for best practices for all work throughout the department. - We write tests for our code; it’s second-nature. - We have a constructive peer review process for all work. - Our DevOps team ensures we have automation throughout the development lifecycle with dynamic env