🌳 🚀 Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead (x5 Roles) – Go, PHP, OOP, AWS, APIs, Full Stack Engineering - Remote
hace 12 horas
Bury
🚀 Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead (x5 Roles) – Go, PHP, OOP, AWS, APIs, Full Stack Engineering Award-Winning, High-Growth SaaS Scale-Up | Remote UK | £67,000–£90,000 + Exceptional Benefits Areti Group – Carbon Positive Tech Recruitment | People & Planet Before Profit 🌳 About the Opportunity We are hiring five exceptional Senior Software Engineers / Tech Leads for one of the UK's fastest-growing technology scale-ups. Following significant growth and investment, the business is embarking on a major platform evolution programme, transitioning from a mature PHP-based architecture towards a modern, scalable, cloud-native ecosystem built around Go, APIs, distributed services, and event-driven architecture. This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future technical direction of a highly successful SaaS platform used by global organisations. We're looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, influencing architecture, mentoring teams, and remaining hands-on with technology. The Opportunity These roles sit at the heart of the engineering organisation. You'll lead technical delivery while helping drive a strategic technology transformation, modernising existing systems and building the next generation of products and services. This role combines: 🌳 Hands-on software engineering 🌳 Technical leadership 🌳 Architectural ownership 🌳 Mentoring and coaching 🌳 Cloud-native platform development 🌳 Full-stack product delivery You'll work closely with Engineering, Product, Platform, and Architecture teams to build highly scalable solutions capable of supporting continued rapid growth. What You'll Be Doing 🌳 Leading and mentoring teams of talented software engineers 🌳 Driving engineering best practices around Object-Oriented Design, SOLID principles, clean architecture, and maintainable code 🌳 Designing and building scalable APIs and backend services 🌳 Helping evolve a large PHP platform towards modern Go-based microservices 🌳 Contributing across the full stack, from backend services through to customer-facing applications 🌳 Influencing technical strategy, architecture, and platform direction 🌳 Working closely with Product teams to deliver business-critical features 🌳 Supporting CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and platform reliability initiatives 🌳 Taking ownership from concept through design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing optimisation 🌳 Playing a key role in hiring and developing future engineering talent Technology Environment We're specifically seeking polyglot engineers who are comfortable working across multiple languages and technologies. Core Technologies 🌳 Go (Golang) 🌳 PHP 🌳 REST APIs & Service-Oriented Architecture 🌳 Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) 🌳 AWS Cloud Platform 🌳 MySQL / PostgreSQL 🌳 Docker & Containerisation 🌳 CI/CD Pipelines 🌳 Git & Modern Development Practices Front-End Technologies 🌳 JavaScript / TypeScript 🌳 Vue.js, React or modern SPA frameworks 🌳 HTML5 🌳 CSS / Tailwind Bonus Experience 🌳 Event-Driven Architecture 🌳 Kafka, RabbitMQ or messaging systems 🌳 Kubernetes 🌳 Terraform / Infrastructure as Code 🌳 Distributed Systems 🌳 Domain-Driven Design (DDD) 🌳 Observability and Monitoring About You We're less interested in job titles and more interested in engineering mindset. You'll likely be: 🌳 A strong software engineer with deep OOP and design pattern experience 🌳 An advocate of clean code and engineering excellence 🌳 Comfortable working across both backend and frontend technologies 🌳 Experienced building and consuming APIs at scale 🌳 A polyglot developer who enjoys working across multiple languages 🌳 Interested in modern Go development and platform engineering 🌳 Experienced with PHP and excited by large-scale transformation programmes 🌳 Comfortable influencing architecture and technical decisions 🌳 A natural mentor who enjoys helping engineers grow 🌳 Passionate about building scalable, maintainable software What Success Looks Like In your first 12 months you'll help: 🌳 Accelerate the migration towards Go-based services 🌳 Modernise key areas of the existing PHP platform 🌳 Improve scalability, resilience, and performance 🌳 Drive API-first engineering practices 🌳 Enhance cloud-native capabilities within AWS 🌳 Support engineering teams through the next stage of platform growth 🌳 Raise technical standards across the organisation Package & Benefits 🌳 £67,000–£90,000 depending on experience 🌳 Remote-first working 🌳 £1,000+ annual learning and development budget 🌳 33 days holiday rising to 40 days 🌳 4-week paid sabbatical after 5 years 🌳 Private healthcare 🌳 Income protection 🌳 Death-in-service cover 🌳 Matched pension contribution up to 5% 🌳 Innovation Weeks twice per year 🌳 20 hours paid volunteering leave 🌳 Flexible working arrangements 🌳 Inclusive, collaborative engineering culture Working Model 🌍 Remote-first across the UK 🌳 Flexible hours around a 37.5-hour week 🌳 Occasional team collaboration days 🌳 High trust, high autonomy environment 🌳 Outcomes over presenteeism Immediate Hiring Interview slots are already reserved for strong candidates. Please ensure your CV clearly demonstrates: 🌳 Golang and/or PHP expertise 🌳 Object-Oriented Design principles 🌳 API development experience 🌳 AWS cloud experience 🌳 Full-stack engineering capability 🌳 Technical leadership or mentoring experience 🌳 Architectural ownership and decision-making Why This Role? These roles are incredibly urgent, with interview slots pre-booked for next week. We are moving fast, and suitable candidates can expect offers within 3 days of interviews. This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most forward-thinking companies in the market. If you're a polyglot fullstack developer ready to take on new challenges, eager to learn, and passionate about technology and teamwork, we want to hear from you. 🌳 Areti Group – Climate Positive Tech Recruitment 🌳 We’re on a mission to put people and the planet first, leaving the world better than we found it.