Engineering Manager - PHP

Dubizzle Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading B2B SaaS company is seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join their dynamic engineering team. The successful candidate will lead diverse teams and manage the development of critical software features using PHP and Laravel. You will play a crucial role in modernizing infrastructure and collaborating with cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. The ideal candidate is passionate about improving the property sector, embraces technical challenges, and has a strong background in software engineering.

Qualifications

• Strong background in PHP and Laravel.
• Experience in building large-scale front- and back-end systems.
• Ability to engage directly with customers and understand their issues.

Responsibilities

• Guide and nurture engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain regulatory and security features.
• Collaborate with product and design teams for customer-focused solutions.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

REST APIs

Javascript

Collaboration

Asynchronous communication

Tools

MariaDB

NGINX

Ansible

RabbitMQ

Redis

AWS S3

Jenkins

Job description

Alto Software Group is a B2B SaaS company that powers more than half of all UK housing transactions each year. We create software solutions that connect businesses and consumers, delivering a one-stop shop for estate agents and home builders. Our goal is to drive efficiency, speed up transactions, reduce risk, and improve the end‑customer experience.

While we’re not a startup, we operate with a startup mindset. We’re looking for people who share this mentality and are ready to tackle big ambitions. This is a fast‑growing and exciting business going through significant change, and there’s never been a better time to join us.

We’re seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to join our ASG Engineering team working on our SaaS estate agency product Jupix and its customer facing application PropertyFile. This is a fast growing and exciting business going through change, where we have relationships with over 25,000 estate agent and developer customers across the UK.

Who you are

• Recruiting, guiding, and nurturing diverse and seasoned engineering teams. We consistently enhance and review our recruitment efforts to achieve progress in this area.

• Collaborating with your peers and the director of engineering to develop and expand our product and engineering organisation through efficient interviewing, recruitment, and orientation processes.
• Guiding, advising and coaching engineers through regular one‑on‑one meetings, objective setting, and continuous feedback cycles.
• Develop and maintain critical regulatory and security features using PHP/Laravel.
• Take ownership of your work from design to deployment, either independently or as part of a collaborative team.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to translate complex business problems into elegant, customer‑focused solutions.
• Contribute to the modernisation of our infrastructure and applications, ensuring our platform is resilient and performant.

Our Technology Stack

Backend: PHP/Laravel, MariaDB

Frontend: Javascript/HTML/CSS

Infrastructure: Self‑managed Linux servers in the OVH cloud, MariaDB, NGINX, Ansible (Infrastructure as Code), RabbitMQ, Redis, AWS S3, Jenkins

What we are looking for

• A software engineer with a strong background in PHP and Laravel

• Someone who is comfortable building large‑scale front‑and back‑end systems.
• Knowledge of designing and implementing REST APIs.
• Knowledge of the above infrastructure technologies and their operational support.
• Possess senior‑level engineering experience and capable of leading technical discussions among the team. Experience in overseeing performance and delivery for our product development team.
• Find pleasure in and are at ease engaging directly with customers to grasp their issues and find out what is important to them
• Drive effective communication within teams. This includes asynchronous communication via documentation. We use Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for teams to let others know what they are working on
• Accustomed to operating with significant alignment and independence, and comfortable navigating technical uncertainty.

There’s always room to grow and learn with our roles so please don’t be put off if you don’t have all of these skills and experiences. It’s more important that you’re passionate about our mission to improve the home moving and owning experience for everyone.

We want to make Alto Software Group more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We’ll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you’ve spent unemployed. We’re reimagining the property industry for everyone, so we want our team to represent people from all walks of life. We actively welcome your application if your demographics or background are underrepresented in the technology or property sectors.