Global Interactive Marketing Online (GIMO) specialise in all aspects of online marketing, website and online games creation in the iGaming, Sports Betting, Poker and Casino industries.
Gimo works in close partnership with leading global gaming brands such as NetBet, bet777, and betFIRST

Due to the growing demand for our services, we are now recruiting for a new “PHP Backend Development Technical Lead” to join our team to work for on a full-time permanent basis.

Key Accountabilities:

PHP Backend Development Technical Lead is technical authority on one (or more) of our Technical Domains who is responsible for enhancing, providing, and designing technical solutions on the related domain(s), evaluating the team technical point of view, and coordinating the team of developers, as well as collaborates with the other teams (Project/Product/QA/IT/Business). Technical Lead is a hands-on expert on coding, conducting code reviews, promoting good development principles, providing solution design, and assuring proper documentation.

Responsibilities:

• To be a hands-on developer on the Domain(s) he is assigned.
• Be the source of inspiration for all developers within the company. Team Leaders and Programmers will come to you with complex problems that you will help them answer.
• Turn business problems into technical design and Translate business requirements into development tasks
• Guide technical decisions, to recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase to resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions.
• Contribute to Technical Strategy on your domain, to propose development and design strategy (using patterns, standards, policies, roadmaps, and vision statements of the company)
• Provide recommendations for improvements of the Product, work closely with Product Owner, and contribute to Product Road Map
• To assess current systems’ architecture and provide required design and development of new technology solutions, integrate HW and the applications running based on the organization’s needs.
• Identify the need and set up training on technical areas, with teams of developers to train them on quality and reliability, with Q&A sessions.
• Enhance and enforce procedures and processes (Code reviews / unit tests) and make sure these are applied,
• Review specifications/requirements to design, code, test, and document high complexity tasks, using the right standards and tools,
• Provide development estimates for the delivery of the tasks
• Mentoring junior developers, assess the need of training and plan workshops/trainings aligned with the Team Lead
• Promote knowledge sharing, and adoption of good practices in development areas.

Person Specification:

• 5+ years of experience as Developer on PHP Backend.
• 2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead
• Passion for building great teams and great software
• Be proficient in a wide range of technical systems; proficient knowledge of information security, modern standards approach, system integration, user focus, system designs, Technical Availability and capacity, development process optimization.
• Algorithmic and analytical thinking, being assertive, customer and solution-oriented
• Senior leadership/mentorship, problem-solving skills
• Ability to delegate work tasks and document their status
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software development methodologies
• Experience with version Control (GIT / SVN)
• Strong technical architecture knowledge
• Senior level of PHP (native and any framework) development
• Full-stack development knowledge
• Strong MySQL knowledge
• Senior level of JavaScript (native and any framework) development
• Experience in building CI/CD processes (experience with Git & Jenkins is preferred)
• Flexibility for unexpected requests to modify the project, which may occur anytime during development
• Ability to fit into well-defined planning and strict deadlines
• Ability to track and work with technical processes that take place within different departments
• Ability to learn, understand and apply new technologies and cascade to team
• Advanced knowledge of English, writing, and communication skills

GIMO Benefits:

• Workplace contribution Pension Scheme
• Flexible working
• Free Lunch for Employees
• Staff Engagement Days
• Health and Wellbeing Activities
• Free tickets to events (Football and other social events)

More benefits are available and will be explained at Job offering stage.

You must already have the right to work in the UK or EU and provide Right to Remain or Visa in proof of this.

Established in 2006 are based in the Waterloo/Southwark area with circa 200 employees working for us in London, and an additional 450 employees working globally as part of the group. Focussing on mobile and online Poker, Casino, and Sports Betting products in major European and Asian markets. We have a very multicultural team here at GIMO with employees specialising in all aspects of Marketing, Affiliation Marketing, Development, Web Design, Content, Analysis, Software Development and Customer Service.

“GIMO is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.”