Nteractive
Lead Web Developer

About Nteractive

At Nteractive, we create and deliver world-class experiences for global brands through events, creative production, and digital innovation. Technology sits at the core of how we operate, and our internal platforms play a critical role in keeping our business connected, efficient, and scalable.

We're now looking for a Lead Web Developer to take ownership of Hive, our in-house operations platform, and shape its next stage of growth.

About Hive

Hive is a Laravel + Livewire platform that powers our day-to-day operations, connecting resourcing, finance, HR, time tracking, identity, and increasingly AI-driven workflows. Built in-house, it's already business-critical — and now needs dedicated ownership to evolve it further.

This is not a maintenance role. It's a build, scale, and improve opportunity. You'll take full ownership of the platform, drive its technical direction, and help shape how it grows across the business.

What you'll be doing

Ownership & Development

Take full ownership of the development, maintenance, and roadmap of Hive

Build and ship new features in response to evolving business needs

Design and maintain database architecture and backend logic

Develop and maintain Livewire and Bootstrap-based front end

Own integrations with key systems and APIs across the business

Manage deployments, environments, and release processes (staging + production)

Engineering & Architecture

Monitor platform performance, stability, and security

Introduce and maintain automated testing across critical paths

Improve scalability, structure, and long-term maintainability of the system

Set coding standards and technical best practices

Document architecture, systems, and processes to reduce single-point dependency

Collaboration & Growth

Translate business needs into practical, well-engineered solutions

Work closely with stakeholders across the business to understand requirements

Support future expansion of the development capability as the team grows

Mentor or guide other developers over time as the function scales

What you will bring

Strong experience with Laravel (v12 preferred) and Livewire

Excellent PHP development skills and strong backend engineering capability

Solid understanding of MySQL and relational database design

Experience with queues, jobs, and scheduled/background processing

Front-end experience with Bootstrap 5

Proven experience owning and running a production application end-to-end

Experience with API integrations across SaaS platforms and internal systems

Familiarity with deployment workflows (e.g. Laravel Forge, DigitalOcean, staging/production environments)

Experience operating as a senior or lead developer, setting technical direction

Bonus: exposure to LLM/AI features (e.g. Anthropic API or similar)

Why you'll love working here

You'll take true ownership of a core internal platform used across the entire business

You'll have the freedom to shape architecture, tooling, and technical direction

You'll work directly with stakeholders across operations, finance, HR and delivery teams

You'll see the real-world impact of your work immediately across live business processes

You'll join a fast-growing, global creative and events agency where tech is becoming increasingly central

You'll be supported to grow into a wider leadership role as the development function expands

Benefits

33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)

Hybrid working with flexibility

Pension Scheme (5% employee / 3% employer contribution)

Private Medical Insurance & Cash Plan

Life Insurance

Enhanced Maternity Pay

Wellbeing & Inclusion initiatives (including EAP)

Birthday Day Off

Summer Hours

Volunteering Day

Rewards & Recognition incentives

Generous Employee Referral Scheme

Other Requirements

Quiet home working environment

Ability to attend the office occasionally for collaboration and key meetings

Minimum 25MB download / 2MB upload broadband

If you're looking for a role where you can truly own a platform, shape its future, and build something that sits at the heart of a growing global events business, we'd love to hear from you.