We are going through a period of rapid growth and are actively seeking skilled a Technical Lead to join our development team building our SaaS Web based application.

Unique IQ creates innovative software solutions to help home care agencies deliver better care. Its IQ:careplanner and IQ:timecard systems offer care planning, scheduling & rostering, eMAR and electronic call monitoring, with a mobile app option for seamless, real time supervision of care delivery.

Unique IQ’s care management software won ‘Innovation of the Year’ in the 2019 North Worcestershire Business Awards, with the company also named Birmingham’s ‘Business of the Year’. Unique IQ has been a finalist in the LaingBuisson Innovation in Technology award for two consecutive years in 2018 and 2019

At the heart of everything we do are our valued clients. We pride ourselves on providing the highest level of service to our customers with forward-thinking and innovative end to end software solutions.

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About the team

You will be working as part of a close-knit, friendly and agile team of 12 within Engineering. We work closely with our product team on setting priorities and deliverables. 

Whether we’re speaking to customers or to each other, we try at all times to live by our core values:

• Integrity and Teamwork – We celebrate diversity and we love to learn new things. We’re eager to learn, share and use knowledge to positively impact our customers: that’s why we ask everyone to be curious.

• Passion and innovation – We’re only as strong as the sum of our parts, and when we bring our skills and talent together for each other and our customers we are at our most incredible. That’s why we are always looking for new ways to innovate.

• Honesty and Committment – At UniqueIQ, we work for our customers. We’re dedicated to thinking about what customers need, now and in the future, and being committed and honest about what we can do..

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.

We are currently building a completely new web application that will integrate two of our core products and deliver an entirely new experience to our customers through a SaaS based approach. Architecting a new application around API’s and backend integrations will be a challenging assignment for this team. 

The team works in an agile environment and are using Scrum. This means that you will be part of a daily stand-up with the rest of the team, work in sprints of 1-2 weeks and will later be involved in helping the team estimate effort for work items.

What will you do:

Provide Leadership to the development team to build web applications that scale using Laravel, with consistent and documented code, utilising your time to coach and mentor developers, while hitting delivery deadlines. 

Work with the CTO and product manager to architect and define future technical strategy that delivers value to our customers.

Participate in design, estimation and scrum sessions to help us build a product that is commercially viable and inspires our customers. 

Research new tools, methods and technologies that will add value to our technology stack, we hold regular information sessions to look at new ways of working.

You will be looking for an opportunity that enables you to make an impact on our delivery, able to work in an agile fashion using tools such as Github.

Understand the requirement for testable code, take pride in aiming to achieve a high degree of velocity and scalability with minimum downtime of production code. 

Bring a logical approach to design, making use of design patterns and able to influence product management, engineering and sales in how we solve problems. 

Be looking for a technically challenging role that will enable you to work on both Greenfield and legacy technologies, building an API driven application that has a significant impact on our customers.

Want to work on a product that makes a difference to people lives ( our end customers are people in care for whom service is everything) 

Experience working as a Development Team Lead, Technical Lead or Senior member of an Engineering team for a complex technical product, ideally SaaS based

Have a good understanding of multiple architectures, design patterns.

Be able to coach and mentor engineers around Code Quality, build good working practices and motivate teams to deliver.

Ideally, experience in building a PHP based codebase, ideally with Laravel.

A beautiful rural setting with modern offices and a strong emphasis on teamwork and core values. A busy and exciting environment to learn, progress and work collaboratively with other like-minded developers.

While the team are currently 100% remote, we would envisage that the role will become office-based, therefore it is essential that you will be able to commute to our offices.

• Salary and package depending on experience

• Perkbox - giving you benefits, discounts and freebies

• Team orientated environment

• Cycle to work scheme

• Choose your laptop and OS

• Budget for homeworking setup

• Pension

• We are looking at a company Healthcare scheme