Senior API Engineer - Go Modernisation & Growth Remote

Areti Group | B Corp™; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Meetup day expensed

25 days annual leave

Additional annual leave

Job summary

Areti Group is hiring two Senior API Developers for a fully remote role, with just one team meetup per month and all travel expensed. The company is a fast-growing SaaS business moving from PHP/Symfony to Go, expanding into the US market and investing heavily in engineering.

You will design and build scalable APIs and backend services, spearheading modernisation efforts while influencing architectural decisions and engineering practices. A strong focus on reliability and performance is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial software engineering experience.
• Excellent API and backend engineering knowledge.
• Experience with AWS or modern cloud environments.
• Understanding of scalable and service-based architectures.
• Strong automated testing and software quality practices.
• Experience in Agile engineering teams.
• Confidence contributing to technical and architectural discussions.
• Experience modernising or evolving existing technology would be valuable.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building high-quality APIs and backend services.
• Helping transition legacy functionality from PHP/Symfony into Go.
• Building technology to support rapid growth and international expansion.
• Working with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Working across Docker, Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• Using logs, metrics and monitoring to improve production systems.
• Building clean, maintainable and well-tested software.
• Solving performance, scalability and reliability challenges.
• Contributing to architecture and technical direction.
• Reviewing code and sharing knowledge with other engineers.
• Improving engineering practices and developer experience.
• Using AI development tools to improve software engineering.

Skills

API design

Backend engineering

Go (Golang)

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

PHP / Symfony

Agile

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Go

Job description

Areti Group is hiring two Senior API Developers for a fully remote role, with just one team meetup per month and all travel expensed. The company is a fast-growing SaaS business moving from PHP/Symfony to Go, expanding into the US market and investing heavily in engineering.

You will design and build scalable APIs and backend services, spearheading modernisation efforts while influencing architectural decisions and engineering practices. A strong focus on reliability and performance is essential.