Senior API & Go Backend Lead (Remote)

Nourish Care; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private health insurance

Pension contribution

Career reviews and social events

Job summary

Nourish Care is seeking a Senior API Developer to help transition the Empower API from a legacy PHP Symfony stack to Go, with a modern deployment on Docker and AWS Kubernetes.

You will join a cross-functional team and work in an Agile environment, mentoring others, and helping build a new Vue.js front end while maintaining existing services. Remote with occasional travel to Bournemouth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial full stack development experience.
• Experience with Go and Vue/React; familiarity with PHP/Symfony to support legacy transition.
• AWS services, Git, Linux command line, and SQL databases; experience in an Agile team using Scrum or Kanban; unit testing; and knowledge of at least one other language.

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.
• 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

PHP/Symfony

AWS

Git

Linux

SQL

Agile

Unit testing

AI-assisted development

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Nourish Care is seeking a Senior API Developer to help transition the Empower API from a legacy PHP Symfony stack to Go, with a modern deployment on Docker and AWS Kubernetes.

You will join a cross-functional team and work in an Agile environment, mentoring others, and helping build a new Vue.js front end while maintaining existing services. Remote with occasional travel to Bournemouth.