Hands-on Development Manager - Lead Tech for Impact (Hybrid)

Edit Websites Ltd; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

1 Day per Month Dedicated to Learning

Your Birthday Off

Subscription to Online Training

Complimentary Car Valet (Every 2 Meses

Annual Eye Test

Job summary

iKnow Software Ltd in Solihull is seeking an experienced Development Manager to lead our development team while remaining hands-on. You will code, mentor, review, and help shape features across our SAAS products for churches and charities.

Join a small, collaborative team with a strong quality focus, AI-enabled development, and a hybrid 3-days-a-week in-office arrangement in Solihull. Start date October 2026.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial software development experience, ideally with at least five years in a professional environment.
• Has experience leading or mentoring developers
• Is technically strong and comfortable remaining hands-on
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure, ideally within AWS

Responsibilities

• Leading and supporting a small team of developers, helping them grow and do their best work
• Coaching and mentoring developers through constructive feedback and support
• Planning and shaping new features, from whole-team UI discussions through to task allocation
• Ensuring code reviews are thorough and maintain a high standard of quality
• Actively coding and contributing to the platform alongside the team
• Refining existing features and developing new modules that solve real customer problems
• Helping the team make effective, secure and responsible use of AI to improve productivity and software quality
• Working closely with other teams to ensure our software meets the needs of churches and charities
• Creating an environment where developers enjoy coming to work and are able to do their best work
• Encouraging healthy technical debate whilst ensuring decisions are made collaboratively
• Helping continually improve our development practices, tooling and deployment processes
• Participating in a shared on‑call rota for critical hosting or platform availability issues. Thankfully these are rare, but we're looking for someone who is happy to help when genuinely needed.

Skills

Leadership

Hands-on coding

Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

PHP (Laravel)

React

Docker

CodeIgniter

Tools

Docker

Laravel

CodeIgniter

React

Job description

iKnow Software Ltd in Solihull is seeking an experienced Development Manager to lead our development team while remaining hands-on. You will code, mentor, review, and help shape features across our SAAS products for churches and charities.

Join a small, collaborative team with a strong quality focus, AI-enabled development, and a hybrid 3-days-a-week in-office arrangement in Solihull. Start date October 2026.