Engineering Lead - PHP
Waterloo - Hybrid Working
Full Time
Permanent
Grade 5
At Currys we’re united by one passion: to help everyone enjoy amazing technology. As the UK’s best-known retailer of tech, we’re proud of the service our customers receive – and it’s all down to our team of 25,000 caring and committed colleagues. Working as one team, we learn and grow together, celebrating the big and small moments that make every day amazing.
We are looking for a technically experienced Engineering Lead to join our Engineering function and take ownership of engineering quality, standards and delivery across our web application landscape - the technology that powers Currys Online and Mobile. The current estate is primarily PHP, and this role requires credible technical depth in that environment.
This is a hands-on leadership role. The Engineering Lead will be equally comfortable presenting technical risk to senior stakeholders and conducting code reviews with delivery teams. The split is intentional - we need someone who leads by doing, not just directing.
Our PHP estate is business-critical, high-volume and customer-facing. The immediate priority is stability, quality and incremental enhancement - but this role is also about raising the engineering bar and building the internal capability to carry the platform forward. You will govern external delivery partners, set and enforce standards, and begin growing a small in-house engineering team.
This role will suit a senior PHP engineer who has operated at lead level in a complex, multi-partner environment and who knows from experience what production-grade engineering looks like. Someone who designs for failure, builds in observability from day one, treats CI/CD as a discipline, and can apply pragmatic MVP thinking to get value out of the door without compromising quality.
