Tech Lead – Backend, PHP/Symfony

🕒 July 28

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i6 Group

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

☁️ SaaS

🚀 Aerospace

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $20M Series B - i6 Group on 2025-10

SaaS • Aerospace • B2B

i6 Group is a provider of cloud-based fuel management and e-fuelling technology for the aviation industry. Its platform (products like Fusion6, Reconcile6 and eHandshake) digitizes and connects fuel operations across the supply chain—from refineries and bulk storage through into-plane refuelling—offering real-time telemetry, inventory & accounting, automated reconciliation, and paperless refuelling workflows. i6 emphasizes operational efficiency, safety and carbon reduction, with deployments at over 270 airports worldwide and integrations with airlines, fuel suppliers, and airport systems. The company positions itself as a B2B SaaS partner for airlines, airports and fuel suppliers to reduce costs, save fuel and lower CO2 emissions.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of 4-6 engineers; develop, maintain and review personal development plans ensuring that those plans align with the company’s strategy • Coach and mentor other team members into using a design-first way of working (API-first, TDD, BDD, DDD) • Hands on development within the team, using our core tech stack (PHP / Symfony, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, Cypress, Behat) • Collaborate with other Technical Leads to ensure we have consistency and share knowledge • Participate fully in, and contribute to, Sprint planning, retrospectives, standups and other ceremonies in a constructive and can-do manner • Provide accurate estimates and complete tasks assigned within the timeframe specified, ensuring that all affected parties are involved in the estimation process, ensuring quality in deliverables • Identify external dependencies of work items at the design stage so that they are considered before the build phase • Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback • Take a leadership role in managing issues through to completion • Share & participate in the on-call rota and provide all necessary support during major incidents. • Augment engineering capability by using appropriate AI coding tools • Collaborate across the business to understand business, commercial and technical / testing requirements

🎯 Requirements

• As a guide a Tech Lead at i6 would typically have 8-10+ years relevant experience. • Strong knowledge and experience with our core programming languages and technologies • Critical: PHP, Symfony, MongoDB, Docker • Nice to have: Kubernetes, Behat, Cypress • Experience with MongoDB and NoSQL database design, including schema modeling, indexing strategies, aggregation pipelines, and performance optimization • Ability to foster a high performance culture developing the team to be world-class, and believes in empowering teams while also driving accountability • Solid understanding of OWASP Top 10 security issues and mitigation techniques • Strong technical leadership in SaaS, Cloud-based platforms, ideally with real-time, data-driven applications and event-driven architectures • Experience with Agile methodologies and delivery frameworks • Strong grasp of architecture, and an ability to lead architectural decision making. • Solid understanding of engineering best practices: CI/CD, code reviews, test automation, observability, performance management, security; and a track record of implementing them • Experience with containerisation and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, preferably in GCP or AWS environments • Deep understanding of event-driven design patterns and their application in scaling real-time, data-intensive SaaS platforms • Familiarity with message brokers and event streaming technologies and their operational trade-offs • Knowledge sharing mindset; creating and maintaining document repositories and ensuring seamless support for other business functions and stakeholders • Practical experience of embedding AI development tools into engineering processes with measurable results

🏖️ Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + your birthday day off • private healthcare • 5% pension contribution