Technical Lead Javascript and PHP

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

1/7/2025

RealityMine has been a pioneer in delivering data-driven insights to the media and market research industries for over a decade. Our platform provides unique and actionable data solutions to top brands and partners worldwide, empowering them to make informed, strategic decisions.

We are looking for a Technical Lead to join our engineering team and take technical responsibility for our customer and staff portals, as well as the APIs that power them.

The Role

Located in Stretford, Trafford Park and comprises of Hybrid working.

They will work on projects using JavaScript and TypeScript in the Angular framework for frontend, with a plan in progress to migrate to Vue.js. The backend is mostly PHP & Laravel. These systems are used to provide management systems for staff and customers of market research projects.

The Technical Lead in the Portal Team will work with the other Portal developers to develop, improve, and maintain the systems that provide management tools for market research projects, with the support of the Platform & Services Team Lead and other colleagues.

This role is technology focussed and will not include line-management of other staff. However, they will be responsible for the teams’ technical direction and the quality of their code as well as working with the Team Lead to manage incoming development requests, maintenance schedules and technical debt.

The Portal team are responsible for the operational management of their services but can liaise with the IT & Operations team for additional resource when required.

RealityMine has an out of hours on-call team (additional compensation is made for on-call hours) that they will be required to join after a suitable settling in period.

RealityMine employs modern development practices in our workflow, using Git alongside CI/CD, unit testing and open-source coding standards. There are lots of opportunities to work in other areas or technologies and expand your knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding requirements and acceptance criteria
• Interpreting software development specifications and design documents
• Writing application code and tests that conform to standards
• Leading software development projects
• Leading the design process on recommended architecture
• Ensuring that the Portal team’s work is of high quality and adheres to our company standards.
• Coordinating with the Team lead to schedule in maintenance and other internal improvements.
• Adhering to company policies and procedures with respect to security, quality, and health and safety
• Identifying risks and developing contingency plans
• Working alongside engineering, testing, user experience and other roles
  
  

About You

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Strong knowledge of programming languages and underlying development concepts to enable them to contribute to work across teams
• Ability to define technical specifications based on customer requirements
• Ability to clearly explain complex technical issues
• System architecture and design
• Strong understanding of information security, ISO 27001, and other processes and policies
• Knowledge of coding standards
• Experience with AWS & Serverless technologies
• Strong PHP knowledge utilising the Laravel framework
• Strong JavaScript or TypeScript knowledge utilising the Angular or Vue.js frameworks
• HTML and CSS
  
  

Preferred:

• Experience developing privacy centric applications
• Experience with optimising SQL queries when working with complex and large data sets
• Experience in leading technical projects and steering a team’s technical direction
  
  

Why Join RealityMine?

At RealityMine, we believe our people are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we go the extra mile to support every team member to unlock their full potential. Whether you're hungry for learning, driven by achievement, or just love being part of a dynamic and supportive team, you'll find a home here.

Your Benefits

• Generous Time Off: Enjoy 25 days of paid holiday, plus bank holidays. After two years with us, you can also buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave.
• Peace of Mind: Life assurance and a workplace pension with employer contributions.
• Reward for Performance: Bonus scheme that recognizes your hard work and contributions.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: For the cyclists among us, we've got you covered.
• Gear You’ll Love: Choose the tech that works for you, we'll try and source it!
• Learning & Growth: Benefit from one-to-one coaching, a budget for training programs, and all the support you need to keep growing.
• Giving Back: Join us in supporting local charities and making a positive impact.
  
  

Hybrid Working

We know work-life balance matters, so we’ve embraced a flexible hybrid working model:

• Located in Trafford Park, our Manchester office offers an inspiring, collaborative space to work alongside your colleagues.
• Free parking and secure bike shed. Excellent public transport links.
• Split your time between the office and home, with full equipment provided for home working (desk, screen, chair).
• Receive £100 annually to personalize your home workspace.
• Flexible start and finish times to suit your personal circumstances.
  
  

If you’re a Software Engineer JavaScript & PHP professional excited to work on impactful projects and shape the future of data insights, we’d love to hear from you.

Please email your CV with the heading ‘Technical Lead - JavaScript & PHP’ to recruitment@realitymine.com