Associate Tech Lead

The Adventus Story -

Adventus.io is a B2B2C SaaS-based marketplace supporting institutions, recruiters and students within the international student placement sector. Our innovative platform allows institutions, recruiters and students to directly connect with one another, resulting in matching the right international study experience with students across the world.

Founded in 2018, we’re on a mission to change the way the world accesses international education. Behind the technology, we have over 500 amazingly talented humans making it all happen. We’re looking for ambitious self-starters who want to be part of our vision and create a positive legacy.

About the role -

You will be providing implementation guidance to our onshore/offshore tech team, managing the build and be responsible for code quality. The Associate Tech Lead inspires a team of talented developers across new and agreed architectures, influencing system architecture and having input into our technology choices and execution of our overall system design.
• Working collaboratively with the developer teams, own the software development lifecycle from development to write, deploy and maintain business critical software features into production
• Design and build highly-resilient, high-performance, scalable and flexible systems.
• Review the technical landscape and gain an in-depth understanding of architecture, tech stack, deficiencies, technical debt, and opportunities.
• Ensure documentation of existing architecture, applications and processes are in place and maintained
• Able to effectively communicate ideas, designs and challenges to business stakeholders in concise and relatable terms
• Coordinate with other Tech Leads on best practice and ensuring all squads are aligned
• Experience working with Agile software development methodologies.
• Provide guidance/mentorship of engineers at all levels.
• Assist in recruiting and onboarding new engineers and build strong, values driven teams.
• Deep experience with PHP 7.x development using Laravel 5.7+

About You -
• You’re an engineer with 6+ years of experience dealing with complex problems at scale in B2B or SaaS
• You deal with complexity by collaborating with colleagues, listening to customers, testing ideas and continuously learning
• You’re a natural problem solver who believes in simple solutions (not easy solutions) and can accept consensus even when you may not agree
• You thrive on analysing problems, formulating solutions, and making those a reality.
• You have a passion for quality and know what best-in-class engineering looks like and want to help drive the journey
• You can communicate across all levels and are able to provide clarity to the team on the tasks and goals ahead
• You’re involved in the software engineering community. You enjoy attending meetups, conferences, have a blog or a GitHub portfolio.
• You enjoy being part of every stage in the Software Development Lifecycle. You can own the code from inception through to production.

At Adventus.io, our partners come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because diversity makes us even greater. We want you to be you so welcome the unique contributions that you can bring regardless of your education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender