Senior API & Go Backend Engineer

Nourish Care; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave 25 days + public holidays

Private medical insurance & wellbeing

Pension contribution

Job summary

Nourish Care is seeking a Senior Developer to help transition our Empower API from PHP Symfony to Go, while building a Vue.js frontend as part of a Drupal migration. You will join an Agile team in a Dockerised, CI/CD-driven environment deployed on AWS Kubernetes, mentoring peers and shaping technical direction.

We value a pragmatic, collaborative approach and a passion for improving social care technology. This role offers remote work with travel to our UK offices, and a strong focus on

Qualifications

• Significant commercial full stack development experience (typically 5+ years).
• Commercial experience with Go and Vue/React plus familiarity with PHP or Symfony to support legacy transition work; familiarity with at least three AWS services, Git, Linux CLI, and SQL databases; experience in Scrum/Kanban; unit testing experience; and proficiency in at least one other language.
• AI coding tools experience in daily development.
• Genuine interest in the UK social care sector and how technology can improve interoperability.
• Pragmatic, collaborative, and warm problem-solving mindset.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining, building, and improving the Empower API.
• Leading or contributing to the migration of legacy Symfony functionality to Go.
• Build the new Vue.js front end as part of the migration from the existing Drupal application.
• Working as part of an Agile team to deliver improvements to our software solutions.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies and committing to sprint goals as a team.
• Analysing logs and metrics to understand how we can improve our systems, or guide partners to better utilise our APIs.
• Supporting client facing colleagues to diagnose and solve issues that may arise.
• Mentoring team members through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Go

Vue/React

Symfony

AWS

Git

Linux

SQL

Scrum/Kanban

AI-assisted development

Go microservices

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git

Linux

Job description

Nourish Care is seeking a Senior Developer to help transition our Empower API from PHP Symfony to Go, while building a Vue.js frontend as part of a Drupal migration. You will join an Agile team in a Dockerised, CI/CD-driven environment deployed on AWS Kubernetes, mentoring peers and shaping technical direction.

We value a pragmatic, collaborative approach and a passion for improving social care technology. This role offers remote work with travel to our UK offices, and a strong focus on