Lead Engineer (PHP/Golang)

JR United Kingdom; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology platform in the UK seeks a Lead Engineer to drive the backend engineering strategy. The role involves migrating from a Laravel monolith to Golang microservices and building scalable architecture for millions of transactions. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in PHP and Laravel, as well as strong leadership skills in architecture discussions.

Qualifications

• Extensive PHP/Laravel experience required.
• Familiar with building large scale, high load platforms.
• Experience leading architecture discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead backend engineering strategy across core API infrastructure.
• Drive best practices and standards.
• Build high-performance architecture powering millions of transactions.
• Migrate from Laravel Monolith to Golang Microservices.

Skills

PHP

Laravel

Microservices

Backend Engineering

Architecture

Job description

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Xcede are partnering with a well known technology platform that has over 15 million registered users and are going through a very exciting transformation as a business.

? What will you do as a Lead Engineer?

• You will be responsible for leading the backend engineering strategy across the core API infrastructure.
• Driving best practices and standards
• Building a robust, high performance architecture powering millions of transactions
• Organically migrating over from a Laravel Monolith to Golang Microservices

? What background are they looking for?

• Extensive PHP/Laravel experience
• Familiarity with building large scale, high load platforms
• Leading architecture discussions

If this sounds interesting, please apply or reach out!