About the Role
Tech Lead (Backend/PHP focus)
Hybrid working (flexible) - Manchester Airport office
Permanent
About CAVU
For airports, for partners, for people. We are CAVU.
At CAVU our purpose is to find new and better ways to make airport travel seamless and enjoyable for everybody. From the smallest ideas to the biggest changes. Every day here is about creating better travel experiences.
From our revenue accelerating single platform technology, Propel, through to our world-class hospitality venues including 1903 and Escape Lounges – our solutions make travel more seamless and enjoyable for passengers, and more profitable for our clients and partners.
We know that to bring your best ideas, you need the space to think, the right support, and the freedom to be your true, authentic self.
Whether you’re working from our offices, from home, in a lounge, or out on the road, we provide the environment to create, innovate, and transform airport travel.
If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impact, bring new ideas to life, and push boundaries, then CAVU is the place for you.
Together, we can reach new heights. Together, we are CAVU.
The role
A keen learner, you’ll be excited about trying new things and coaching others in their use.
Ideally, you will have a background in Back-end or Full-stack Development.
You’ll realize that modern applications are more than just PHP, researching which AWS services and datastores are right for the job and how to orchestrate everything using Terraform.
Happiest with a bit of ambiguity, working with product owners and architects to determine the best solution rather than implementing tickets verbatim, you’ll preference maintainability over sophistication.
You will take full responsibility for developing and delivering a strategic technological vision and direction for the business, leading and managing a software development team from a technical perspective in an Agile manner.
As a Tech Lead you are the singular authority for technical decisions within your autonomous teams. You are part Architect, part Developer, part Manager, but fully awesome.
Essential Skills
2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead (ideally - back-end focused)
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
Object-Oriented Programming
Rest API's and test-driven development
Good understanding of Software design patterns
Experience of leading / managing a team of engineers
CI/CD or DevOps environment experience
Object-Oriented Programming with PHP 7/8
Confident communication skills
Desirable Skills
Microservices Architecture
Experience in Typescript and/Experience with applying TDD/BDD development techniques and ensuring teams adhere to them.
AWS development, including DynamoDB, Lambda
Infrastructure as Code
Event Driven Architectures
Tech Stack
PHP 7/8backend developmentAWSTerraformREST APIsmicroservicesCI/CDDevOpsobject-oriented programmingTypeScript