Technical Lead

Street Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work (up to 4 days WFH)

Birthday bonus

L&D budget for career development

Volunteer days

Flexible hours

Off-site events

Cycle to work

Electric car salary sacrifice

Well-being support

Job summary

Street Group is a fast-growing PropTech company in the UK, delivering Street.co.uk CRM and Spectre AI tools that power thousands of estate agents. As Technical Lead, you’ll head a small cross-functional team, stay hands-on, and guide engineering managers to deliver scalable, high-quality software and AI-enabled features that matter to customers.

You’ll partner with designers, product owners and engineers on discovery, ideation and prioritisation to ensure we build the right thing, the right way,

Qualifications

• Experience with production-grade PHP and JavaScript, hands-on and software-driven.
• Laravel experience is advantageous.
• Cloud(AWS/GCP) experience.
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Support, lead and coach a small cross-functional team.
• Be hands-on with building best-in-class software across a wide domain.
• Drive best programming practices and mentor your team on that journey.
• Work at scale, building tools and systems that handle rapid adoption and maintain stability long term.
• Collaborate with Data, customers, and commercial colleagues to build the best product.

Skills

PHP

JavaScript

Laravel

AWS/GCP

Distributed systems

AI-first development

Production systems

Team leadership

Communication

Job description

Manchester (Hybrid, up to 4 days WFH)

Street Group is one of the fastest-growing PropTech companies in the UK. We want to be the leading creator of delightful experiences for everybody involved in buying, selling, renting and letting property, regardless of their involvement, to improve the industry for everybody by elevating UK Estate Agencies through world-class technology.

Street.co.uk is our game-changing CRM: a truly modern estate agency platform, creating a next-level digital experience for customers, putting transparency, user experience and beautiful design at the heart of our industry.

Spectre is our multi-award-winning, instruction generation tool, generating an average return on investment for them of over 3000%, covering direct mail, email, social media and digital reports.

As a Technical Lead, you’ll lead one of our Agent Experience teams, which owns Street’s core CRM and sales product. It’s used every day by tens of thousands of estate agents for managing viewings, valuations, sales, and other business critical operations making the customer impact tangible and measurable.

You’ll lead a small cross-functional team, contributing to discovery and ideation, and work alongside designers, product owners and engineers in order to identify, prioritise and solve problems iteratively.

Our Technical Leads stay hands‑on, leading from the front to make sure we build the right thing, in the right way. It’s a key role to make sure we continue to regularly deliver amazing new products and features to our customers. You’ll also work closely with other Technical Leads and Engineering Managers to help guide wider‑scale improvements to our platform.

If you love autonomy, are naturally curious, and want to have a genuine impact within a growing company, we think you’d fit right in!

Here’s what you can expect to be working on as a Technical Lead at Street

• Supporting, leading and coaching a small but highly talented cross‑functional team

• Being hands‑on with building best‑in‑class software across a wide domain

• Being a driving force behind best programming practices and taking your team on that journey with you

• Working at scale, building tools and systems that can withstand rapid adoption and maintain stability long term

• Collaborating closely with our in‑house Data team, our customers, and commercial colleagues in the business in order to build the best product we can

A bit about you

• You’re an experienced Engineer with existing or prior experience with production‑grade PHP and JS (and you’re keen to remain hands‑on)

• Additionally, Laravel experience is advantageous.

• You have experience with Cloud (AWS and/or GCP)

• You’ve had some experience with building and working within distributed systems

• You’re a passionate advocate for best practices, particularly around AI‑first development, and continuous improvement

• You’ve had experience building and operating production systems at scale

• You have experience bringing people on a journey to build things better

• You have strong empathy, communication and collaboration skills

• You care about empowering your team and working together to find the best solutions

Why join Street Group?

Hybrid‑working, you can work from home up to 4 days per week
Guilt‑Free R&R - £1000 towards a holiday after your first year with the team (we’ll even cover the tax!)
Joining a culture that supports your development and encourages growth
£500 yearly L&D budget for your career development
Your birthday on us - we pay, you stay away
‘Give something back’ - 2 paid days volunteering on us
Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption pay
Mental health & well‑being support via Health Assured
Regular well‑being initiatives
Flexible working hours
Joining a new team in an exciting business with huge ambition
Be a part of something bigger - everyone in our team is passionate about improving the entire property industry! It's a huge goal, but it motivates us to do better every single day
A chance to work on cutting‑edge technology
Comfortable, relaxed office space - office dogs welcome!
Fully stocked fridge and beers (or an alternative) on us every Friday afternoon
Company and team off‑sites, events and happy hours
Cycle to work scheme
Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
Feel good about sustainability - we're a climate‑positive company!

Research has shown that women tend to rule themselves out of applying for jobs unless they meet 100% of the requirements. If you fall into that category and were about to rule yourself out based on the above criteria; please consider applying anyway. We'd love to see your application!

We care deeply about helping the tech industry become a more inclusive and diverse place, and we work hard to lead by example. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and be able to perform the work specified.

Interview Process

3 stages plus a take home task = An introductory call with one of our Talent team > Technical Interview > Final interview with our Co‑Founder and Head of Engineering.

We want to make our interviews as inclusive as possible, so if you need any adjustments made, or if there's anything you think we should be aware of during the interview process, please do let us know.