Lead Developer

Visitor Chat; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Visitor Chat, a leader in live chat solutions, is seeking a Lead Developer to enhance its SAAS platform for the automotive and real estate sectors. This role offers a competitive salary and the chance to lead an agile team in a fully remote setting within the UK.

Benefits

24 days holiday

AXA Private healthcare

Annual training allowance

Electric car scheme

Bike2Work scheme

Collaborative team events

Qualifications

• Experience managing development teams.
• Hands-on development experience in PHP and VueJS.
• Ability to mentor and collaborate cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of UK-based developers.
• Lead sprint planning and issue prioritization.
• Collaborate with BA, QA, and Design.

Skills

PHP 8

VueJS

Postgres

Web Sockets

HTML/CSS

Docker

Git

Job description

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We're Hiring: Lead Developer | Up to £70k | Remote (UK Only) - Strictly, no agencies.

Visitor Chat is a rapidly growing company at the forefront of live chat solutions. We are seeking an ambitious and energetic individual, to helpstrengthenour SAASproduct offering by taking charge of our in-house SAAS platform that powers real-time live chat for the automotive and real estate industries — with exciting plans to expand further.

If you're a hands-on developer with a knack for mentoring, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration, this is your chance to lead a small, agile team and make a real impact.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Hands-on with development across our stack
• Managing a small team of UK based developers.
• Leading sprint planning, issue prioritisation, and estimating work
• Running stand-ups and regular 1:1s
• Collaborating with BA, QA, and Design to maintain an efficient pipeline of work.
• Handling internal queries and shaping team processes (code reviews, deployments, etc.)
• Staying hands-on with development across our stack

We're Hiring: Lead Developer | Up to £70k | Remote (UK Only) - Strictly, no agencies.

Visitor Chat is a rapidly growing company at the forefront of live chat solutions. We are seeking an ambitious and energetic individual, to helpstrengthenour SAASproduct offering by taking charge of our in-house SAAS platform that powers real-time live chat for the automotive and real estate industries — with exciting plans to expand further.

If you're a hands-on developer with a knack for mentoring, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration, this is your chance to lead a small, agile team and make a real impact.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Hands-on with development across our stack
• Managing a small team of UK based developers.
• Leading sprint planning, issue prioritisation, and estimating work
• Running stand-ups and regular 1:1s
• Collaborating with BA, QA, and Design to maintain an efficient pipeline of work.
• Handling internal queries and shaping team processes (code reviews, deployments, etc.)
• Staying hands-on with development across our stack

Requirements

• PHP 8 (Laravel + Livewire), VueJS, Postgres
• Experience with managing development teams
• Web Sockets (Socket.io)
• HTML/CSS (Tailwind)
• Docker, Virtualisation
• Git

Nice to Have:

• NodeJS
• Experience with reporting on large datasets
• Experience with high trafficsolutions
• AWS / Server Administration (Especially ECS)
• GitHub Actions
• Experience with Live Chat solutions

What You’ll Get

• £70,000 salary
• 24 days holiday
• AXA Private healthcare
• Annual training allowance
• Electric car scheme
• Bike2Work scheme
• Remote working (Portsmouth office + remote flexibility)
• A friendly, collaborative team + great social events (Bowling, Go Ape, BBQs, karting…)

Hours: Mon–Fri, 9AM–5:30PM (with flexitime)

Location: Remote (close enough to Portsmouth to attend work socials would be ideal!)

Interested or know someone perfect for this? Drop us a message or apply now. Let’s build something great together.

No recruitment agencies, please.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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