We are Lightfoot, a high-growth technology company based just outside Exeter that is focused on making a difference worldwide, one driver at a time. We help businesses and private motorists improve efficiency and safety.
Our technology has been proven to reduce fuel use and emissions rates by 10-20%, and at-fault accidents and wear and tear by 40-50%. It connects to your vehicle’s on-board computer and uses all the live data it produces to analyse how efficiently you are driving. It’s similar to how performance is analysed in Formula 1. Lightfoot turns that data into simple feedback for you – the driver – so you know when you’re pushing your vehicle too far and can bring it back to maximum efficiency. Beyond the vehicle, our proprietary gamification platform engages users via our app, giving our driver community the opportunity to engage in their performance and to win weekly cash prizes and rewards for achieving Elite Driver standard. Our solutions are highly differentiated from the competition which has helped us secure circa 300 of the UK’s largest fleet customers including Tesco, Asda, Southwest Water, Iceland and Virgin Media to name a few.
More recently, we’ve started leveraging our gamification IP to expand our product offering to beyond drivers. With our new app-only solution we can now incentivise and reward all sorts of measurable behaviours for our customers, from physical activity to online order picking. We’ve now given away nearly £1m in prize money incentivising and rewarding desirable behaviours and are excited about the value this can bring to our customer and to our growth prospects.
We’re a fun-loving bunch who are growing at an astonishing rate. We’ve moved into a brand-new, state-of-the-art office near Exeter in the beautiful Southwest (which was voted Exeter’s ‘Best Workspace’). We are excited to keep growing the Lightfoot family with like-minded, passionate individuals who share our values.
* We are innovative.
* We are customer first.
* We are friendly and celebrate individuality.
About the role
As a Technical Lead, you’ll be in a senior role responsible for leading our Lightfoot web team of 6 developers. You’ll be a key technical architect, managing technical solutions and debt with a large degree of autonomy. Key responsibilities include leading the technical scoping and delivery of many exciting projects, whilst also analysing and implementing improvements to both development practices and processes as you see fit, making it your mission to remove obstacles blocking the team. You’ll work closely with the wider Engineering team, Product, Project, and Design, becoming a trusted advisor who helps improve the product range, reporting to the CTO.
Key duties and responsibilities
* Work closely with Product, Project, and Design teams to understand requirements and help translate them into technical solutions using a customer-centric design-led approach.
* Ensuring solutions are secure, well tested, and low-debt.
* Prototype technical solutions.
* Conduct agile ceremonies, leading relevant solution development team(s) to efficient and timely delivery.
* Continual improvement of internal development processes and practices, ensuring the team is running smoothly and efficiently.
* Ensure processes are followed within the web team, including ensuring appropriate documentation.
* Championing automation.
* Hands-on coding opportunities.
* Perform ad hoc tasks as required by the business.
* Compliance with the requirements of 9001.
* Compliance with the requirements of 27001.
Key skills, experience and qualifications
* Extensive experience with web and mobile technologies, including a focus on application development is essential.
* Experience in a technical lead role including mentoring other developers is essential.
* Hands-on experience of PHP frameworks including Symfony is essential.
* Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines is essential.
* Experience with cloud platforms including AWS is essential.
* Familiarity with design-led and mobile-led approaches is essential.
* An appreciation of good UI/UX design is beneficial.
* A good working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is beneficial.
* Experience managing production systems is beneficial.
* Experience delivering SaaS solutions is beneficial.
* Commercial perspective is beneficial.
* 24 days of annual leave (plus bank holidays).
* Birthday leave – an extra day off to celebrate.
* End-of-year company closure.
* Holiday buy-back scheme – the opportunity to buy up to an extra week’s leave per annum.
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