Our client is after their next Development Team Lead / Lead Developer. Someone who wants to genuinely own the full development lifecycle, enable their team to move faster, and still get their hands dirty with code. 
 
This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll shape how the team works, remove friction, and help good developers do their best work. 
 
The organisation itself is one of those quiet NZ success stories. They don’t chase headlines or hype. Instead, they focus on building a solid product that customers genuinely love. 
 
With a tech stack spanning web, mobile, reporting, and backend data-heavy workloads, you’ll be the glue that keeps everything running smoothly. 
 

About the role
 
This is a true team lead role with a high degree of autonomy. You’ll have the space and trust to do what you believe is right for the team. 
 
Day to day, you’ll still be involved in technical decision making and some hands on development, but your primary focus will be ensuring the team stays aligned, productive, and unblocked. 
 
That could mean: 

• Implementing a right-sized agile process
• Identifying skills gaps and organising training
• Spotting recurring blockers and actively removing them, both for right now and the future

This is not one of those "Team Lead" roles that sound perfect on paper, but comes with a bunch of caveats and handcuffs. Your experience and opinions will genuinely shape how the development team works and evolves. 
 

What you will bring
 
Ideally you would have held a Team Lead / Tech Lead / Lead Developer / Development Manager role before. Concepts like one on ones, performance reviews, and development plans won’t be new to you. 
 
You’ll also bring a strong technical background. You’re comfortable getting your hands dirty and making tough calls around technical direction and migrations when required. 
 
And finally, have that organizational ability. Whether it’s scrum, agile, XP, Kanban, whatever it is, it just needs to keep the team humming. 
 

You will need all/most/able-to-fake-it of :

• Previous experience managing a software development team all the way from hiring, one on ones, performance reviews etc
• Extensive PHP experience (Laravel for new work, and vanilla PHP for the legacy you can't wait to modernise)
• Good experience with SQL (Both MySQL and MSSQL). Some databases are 400+ tables large!
• Experience working in the cloud, in particular AWS
• An understanding that sometimes unlocking your team's potential matters more than being deep in the weeds with headphones on

And some/none-but-willing-to-learn of :

• Experience with Node.js
• Experience managing external vendors
• Exposure to strategic roadmaps and forecasting
• General IT knowledge (networking, governance, audits) to help plug gaps where needed

 

Additional information
 
This role is based in Auckland CBD. Due to the nature of the role, the domain knowledge required, and all the moving parts, in office atleast for the first 3 months is expected. 
 
The role is only open to candidates with existing working rights within NZ. 
 
For more information on the role or to apply direct. [email protected] / 09 888 4188

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