Engineering Lead (Laravel / PHP / JavaScript)

Hackney, London (minimum 3 days/week in office and 2 remote)

Highly Competitive salary + equity potential

About Geomiq

Geomiq is a global manufacturing platform connecting businesses with high-quality manufacturing partners across CNC machining, sheet metal and additive manufacturing.

Our platform sits at the intersection of:

Complex quoting logic

Supply performance systems

Global operational workflows

AI-driven automation

Data-intensive decision-making

We are building a high-leverage engineering team to power a distributed manufacturing network at scale.

We are now hiring a Technical Engineering Manager to lead our backend and data engineering capability.

The Role

This is a hands-on technical leadership role.

You will:

Architect and build core platform systems

Write production code daily

Lead and mentor a small, high-calibre team of senior developers and data scientists

Shape technical direction alongside the CEO and product leadership

Ensure engineering quality, velocity and scalability

This is not a coordination role.

This is not a Jira-ticket manager role.

You will lead from the front.

Tech Stack

Laravel (core backend framework)

PHP

JavaScript (Vue SPA frontend)

API integrations (including third-party platforms)

Data pipelines and analytics

AI/automation integration

Experience building scalable systems in Laravel is essential.

What You'll Own

Backend architecture and system design

Code quality and technical standards

Performance and scalability optimisation

Engineering roadmap delivery

Data architecture alongside data scientists

Automation and AI-driven workflow integration

Technical hiring and capability development

You will work closely with:

Operations (supply performance systems)

Commercial (conversion optimisation)

Quality & performance leaders

Product and AI initiatives

What We're Looking For

You are:

A strong Laravel/PHP engineer first

Experienced leading senior engineers

Comfortable making architectural decisions

Systems-oriented — you think in workflows, data models and automation

Used to working in fast-moving environments

Pragmatic and delivery-focused

You have likely:

Built and scaled a production SaaS platform

Designed APIs and complex business logic

Managed small, high-performance teams

Worked closely with data or AI initiatives

Operated in a startup or scale-up environment

What This Role Is Not

It is not a pure people manager position

It is not an enterprise corporate engineering role

It is not a maintenance-only position

This role is for someone who wants to build and scale meaningful systems.

Office & Environment

Minimum 3 days per week in our Hackney office

Small, high-calibre team

High ownership and autonomy

Direct exposure to commercial and operational strategy

We value proximity, velocity and technical depth.

Why Join Geomiq?

Complex real-world engineering problems

Intersection of software, AI and global manufacturing

Direct impact on operational performance

Opportunity to shape architecture at scale

High-trust, high-responsibility environment

If you are a strong engineer who wants to lead from the front and build systems that power global operations — we'd love to hear from you.