Development Team Manager; Web development

Overview

Join Propel Tech as a Development Team Manager and become a trusted technical voice for our clients. You’ll guide technical decisions, improve delivery quality, and support a talented web development team working across multiple client systems. This role suits a hands-on developer who enjoys variety, problem-solving, and combining technical leadership with people development and client collaboration. You’ll work with autonomy, see the impact of your decisions first-hand, and help both clients and team members succeed.

Our web team designs, builds, and maintains bespoke web applications. Much of our work focuses on improving and extending existing systems, alongside greenfield projects built from the ground up. We work primarily with PHP, JavaScript, and React, taking a pragmatic approach to choosing the right tools for each job. Collaboration, quality, and doing things properly are central to how we work.

Technical leadership and delivery

• Act as the technical representative in client meetings, building trust through clear communication and sound advice
• Lead and support a team delivering work for multiple clients and systems
• Develop deep understanding of client platforms and proactively suggest improvements
• Stay hands-on with development to maintain strong technical capability
• Work closely with a Project Manager to plan, prioritise, and deliver work
• Support presales activity, including solution scoping and proposal input

People leadership and development

• Monitor delivery quality and team performance, addressing issues early
• Provide feedback, coaching, and mentoring through one-to-ones and code reviews
• Support career development and learning goals across the team
• Encourage good process adherence and continuous improvement
• Set and uphold high standards in code quality, performance, and maintainability
• Use learning time to explore new tools and technologies, including AI

“We’re looking for someone who’s technically strong, confident with clients, and proactive in improving systems. If you’re also passionate about supporting a team and driving quality, we’d love to hear from you.” — Wil Jones, Technical Director

• Strong hands-on experience in full stack web development (PHP, JavaScript, React)
• Ability to quickly understand and evaluate existing systems
• Experience working on business-critical applications
• Confidence leading technical discussions with clients
• Experience mentoring or leading others in a technical environment
• Focus on quality, performance, and continuous improvement
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Experience delivering solutions for external clients or managing multiple concurrent projects (desirable)
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, especially AWS (desirable)

• Clients and colleagues trust your technical judgement
• Your team delivers consistently high-quality work and continues to develop
• Delivery risks are identified early and managed effectively
• You balance being hands-on with empowering others

We aim to respond within 5 working days. The process includes an initial video interview and a final in-person interview at our Wakefield office, with a short technical exercise completed in advance.

We’ll be open about what to expect at every stage so you can make an informed decision.

You don’t need to meet every requirement to apply. If this role feels like the right next step, we’d love to hear from you.

Please note:
Agency support is already in place for this vacancy.