Technical Engineering Manager

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.