Lead Engineer (PHP/Golang)

JR United Kingdom; Stockport; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology platform is seeking a Lead Engineer to spearhead the backend engineering strategy and drive their transformation towards microservices. The successful candidate will leverage extensive PHP/Laravel experience to build a robust architecture, ensuring high performance as they transition from a monolith to a microservices environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive PHP and Laravel experience required.
• Experience in large scale, high load platforms.
• Capability to lead architecture discussions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the backend engineering strategy and ensure best practices.
• Build high performance architecture for millions of transactions.
• Migrate from Laravel Monolith to Golang Microservices.

Skills

Backend Engineering

PHP

Laravel

Microservices

Architecture Design

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!