At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a tech team to innovate airport travel solutions using cutting-edge technologies.
- Company: CAVU, a forward-thinking company transforming airport experiences.
- Benefits: 25 days holiday, flexible working, gym access, and discounts on travel products.
- Other info: Inclusive workplace focused on diversity and personal growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the travel industry while developing your skills in a dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: 2+ years as a Technical Lead with experience in Agile and PHP development.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Hybrid working (flexible) - Manchester Airport office
At CAVU our purpose is to find new and better ways to make airport travel seamless and enjoyable for everybody. 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.
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.
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 realise 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.
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.
- 2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead (ideally - back-end focused)
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Good understanding of Software design patterns
- CI/CD or DevOps environment experience
- Object-Oriented Programming with PHP 7/8
- Experience in Typescript and/or experience with applying TDD/BDD development techniques and ensuring teams adhere to them
- AWS development, including DynamoDB, Lambda
Benefits:
- 25 days holiday, increasing 1 day per year with service (up to a maximum of 28)
- Option to buy up to 10 more days annual leave, plus 4 flexible bank holidays
- 10% company pension
- Annual bonus scheme
- On-site gym
- A host of flexible benefits & discounts – including up to 50% off our CAVU products such as Escape Lounges and Airport Parking
- Rail and retail discounts
- Formal and informal development opportunities, including mentoring programmes and learning grants
- Enhanced parental leave (T&Cs apply)
At CAVU, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity (ID&E) is extremely important to us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate based on religion, race, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Research shows women in particular may not apply unless they tick every box. We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation during the hiring process.
