Lead Web Developer in Staines, United Kingdom

About Nteractive

At Nteractive, we create and deliver world-class experiences for global brands through events, creative production, and digital innovation. Technology sits at the core of how we operate, and our internal platforms play a critical role in keeping our business connected, efficient, and scalable.

We’re now looking for a Lead Web Developer to take ownership of Hive , our in-house operations platform, and shape its next stage of growth.

About Hive

Hive is a Laravel + Livewire platform that powers our day-to-day operations, connecting resourcing, finance, HR, time tracking, identity, and increasingly AI-driven workflows. Built in-house, it’s already business-critical — and now needs dedicated ownership to evolve it further.

This is not a maintenance role. It’s a build, scale, and improve opportunity. You’ll take full ownership of the platform, drive its technical direction, and help shape how it grows across the business.

What you'll be doing

Ownership & Development

• Take full ownership of the development, maintenance, and roadmap of Hive

• Build and ship new features in response to evolving business needs

• Design and maintain database architecture and backend logic

• Develop and maintain Livewire and Bootstrap-based front end

• Own integrations with key systems and APIs across the business

• Manage deployments, environments, and release processes (staging + production)

Engineering & Architecture

• Monitor platform performance, stability, and security

• Introduce and maintain automated testing across critical paths

• Improve scalability, structure, and long-term maintainability of the system

• Set coding standards and technical best practices

• Document architecture, systems, and processes to reduce single-point dependency

Collaboration & Growth

• Translate business needs into practical, well-engineered solutions

• Work closely with stakeholders across the business to understand requirements

• Support future expansion of the development capability as the team grows

• Mentor or guide other developers over time as the function scales

What you will bring

• Strong experience with Laravel (v12 preferred) and Livewire

• Excellent PHP development skills and strong backend engineering capability

• Solid understanding of MySQL and relational database design

• Experience with queues, jobs, and scheduled/background processing

• Front-end experience with Bootstrap 5

• Proven experience owning and running a production application end-to-end

• Experience with API integrations across SaaS platforms and internal systems

• Familiarity with deployment workflows (e.g. Laravel Forge, DigitalOcean, staging/production environments)

• Experience operating as a senior or lead developer, setting technical direction

• Bonus: exposure to LLM/AI features (e.g. Anthropic API or similar)

Why you'll love working here

• You’ll take true ownership of a core internal platform used across the entire business

• You’ll have the freedom to shape architecture, tooling, and technical direction

• You’ll work directly with stakeholders across operations, finance, HR and delivery teams

• You’ll see the real-world impact of your work immediately across live business processes

• You’ll join a fast-growing, global creative and events agency where tech is becoming increasingly central

• You’ll be supported to grow into a wider leadership role as the development function expands

Benefits

• 33 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays)

• Hybrid working with flexibility

• Pension Scheme (5% employee / 3% employer contribution )

• Private Medical Insurance & Cash Plan

• Life Insurance

• Enhanced Maternity Pay

• Wellbeing & Inclusion initiatives (including EAP)

• Birthday Day Off

• Summer Hours

• Volunteering Day

• Rewards & Recognition incentives

• Generous Employee Referral Scheme

Other Requirements

• Quiet home working environment

• Ability to attend the office occasionally for collaboration and key meetings

• Minimum 25MB download / 2MB upload broadband

• Due to client and business requirements, you may be required to complete a criminal background check. Any checks will be carried out in compliance with applicable local legislation and data privacy requirements.

If you’re looking for a role where you can truly own a platform, shape its future, and build something that sits at the heart of a growing global events business , we’d love to hear from you.