Senior Full Stack Engineer + Team Lead
Hi, we are Storyteq! 👋🏼
Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates & AI and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster.
We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn’t. Since 2016 our mission has been to revolutionize the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lies at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.
About the job
You will be a part of the domain where we work to enable global enterprises to efficiently scale up their content creation. Taking in content from sources like Photoshop, Figma and After Effects, or designing it in our AI enabled web driven editor and taking it to the next level. Working directly with other Developers, Designers, Quality Engineers, DevOps Engineers, and Product Owners to deliver the best platform for our users.
Your role will revolve around all the different elements that will bring our product to new heights. This includes implementing new features, scaling existing capabilities, and making our product more amazing every day. The team works with strong goals and a good balance of product & engineering roadmap features. That way we make sure we always keep our technology and product on track!
In addition to being an individual contributor, this role includes a Team Lead component. You will provide lightweight people and process management within a cross-functional agile team of up to 6 engineers. This means supporting, coaching and mentoring your team members through regular 1:1s, performance reviews and ad-hoc catch-ups, aiming to create a culture of ownership, autonomy and collaboration. You will be responsible for promoting standard working practices and iterating on process to optimise delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Engineering Responsibilities
- Build and ship robust backend services and frontends with real product impact
- Ensure systems are scalable, performant and maintainable
- Collaborate across teams to integrate services and deliver end‑to‑end value
- Model business domains into clean, performant data structures
- Contribute to architectural design and communicate trade‑offs effectively
Team Lead Responsibilities
- Coach and mentor engineers to help them grow technically and professionally
- Lead technical delivery for initiatives within a domain or project
- Facilitate predictable planning, prioritisation and delivery in an agile environment
- Foster psychological safety, inclusion and a sustainable team culture
- Identify and address conflicts early and constructively
- Provide clear feedback, performance support and career development guidance
Requirements
Core Technical Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience delivering full‑stack products with TypeScript/JavaScript and PHP (Laravel)
- Strong backend development experience with Node.js and/or PHP (Laravel)
- Experience with Vue.js or another modern front-end framework
- Solid experience designing and integrating REST and/or GraphQL APIs
- Comfortable working in monorepo environments and modular architectures
- Proficient in data modeling and SQL/NoSQL databases
- Familiar with testing best practices, performance tuning, and scalable design principles
- Strong architectural thinking and ability to communicate trade-offs clearly
Team Leadership Requirements
- Experience leading and coaching engineers, including feedback and performance support
- Ability to plan, prioritise and deliver predictably within an agile context
- Conflict‑resolution skills to surface and address issues constructively
- Proactive, results-driven and comfortable working in a fast-growing tech scale-up
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal) in English
Benefits
We Value Diversity
We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.
We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation, but the wider industry too.
At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet, because we’re always stronger together.
ITG have a number of community groups (ERGs) available to employees which offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other. These include Black ITGers Together, LGBTQ+ Together, Mens Health Together, Muslims Together, Neurodiversity Together, Working Parents and Carers Together and Women In Tech Together.
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