Job Description

Technical Engineering Manager (Laravel / PHP / JavaScript)

📍 Hackney, London (minimum 3 days/week in office and 2 remote)
💰 Highly Competitive salary + equity potential

About Geomiq

Geomiq is a global manufacturing platform connecting businesses with high-quality manufacturing partners across CNC machining, sheet metal and additive manufacturing.

Our platform sits at the intersection of:

• Complex quoting logic

• Supply performance systems

• Global operational workflows

• AI-driven automation

• Data-intensive decision-making

We are building a high-leverage engineering team to power a distributed manufacturing network at scale.

We are now hiring a Technical Engineering Manager to lead our backend and data engineering capability.

The Role

This is a hands-on technical leadership role.

You will:

• Architect and build core platform systems

• Write production code daily

• Lead and mentor a small, high-calibre team of senior developers and data scientists

• Shape technical direction alongside the CEO and product leadership

• Ensure engineering quality, velocity and scalability

This is not a coordination role.
This is not a Jira-ticket manager role.

You will lead from the front.

Tech Stack

• Laravel (core backend framework)

• PHP

• JavaScript (Vue SPA frontend)

• API integrations (including third-party platforms)

• Data pipelines and analytics

• AI/automation integration

Experience building scalable systems in Laravel is essential.

What You’ll Own

• Backend architecture and system design

• Code quality and technical standards

• Performance and scalability optimisation

• Engineering roadmap delivery

• Data architecture alongside data scientists

• Automation and AI-driven workflow integration

• Technical hiring and capability development

You will work closely with:

• Operations (supply performance systems)

• Commercial (conversion optimisation)

• Quality & performance leaders

• Product and AI initiatives

What We’re Looking For

You are:

• A strong Laravel/PHP engineer first

• Experienced leading senior engineers

• Comfortable making architectural decisions

• Systems-oriented — you think in workflows, data models and automation

• Used to working in fast-moving environments

• Pragmatic and delivery-focused

You have likely:

• Built and scaled a production SaaS platform

• Designed APIs and complex business logic

• Managed small, high-performance teams

• Worked closely with data or AI initiatives

• Operated in a startup or scale-up environment

What This Role Is Not

• It is not a pure people manager position

• It is not an enterprise corporate engineering role

• It is not a maintenance-only position

This role is for someone who wants to build and scale meaningful systems.

Office & Environment

• Minimum 3 days per week in our Hackney office

• Small, high-calibre team

• High ownership and autonomy

• Direct exposure to commercial and operational strategy

We value proximity, velocity and technical depth.

Why Join Geomiq?

• Complex real-world engineering problems

• Intersection of software, AI and global manufacturing

• Direct impact on operational performance

• Opportunity to shape architecture at scale

• High-trust, high-responsibility environment

If you are a strong engineer who wants to lead from the front and build systems that power global operations — we’d love to hear from you.