Technical Engineering Manager
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Technical Engineering Manager (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 Youll 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 Were 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 wed love to hear from you.
Key Skills
- Hospitality Experience
- Go
- Management Experience
- React
- Redux
- Node.js
- AWS
- Mechanical Engineering
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Mentoring
- Distributed Systems
