Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Senior Software Engineer - Backend
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Job Description
Job Title:Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Location: Islington London
Contract: Perm
Recruiter:Noaman Hussain
About the role
We are looking for an experienced developer to join our backend development team in delivering the future of digital healthcare. Some experience in PHP will be beneficial to help provide support to the existing codebase during the longer term transition process.
What youll do:
- Collaborate with the backend development team and wider engineering team in the delivery of new features and enhancements
- Engage with senior developers in the design of new features and solutions
- Develop code using industry best practices
- Implementation of unit testing in new and existing code to ensure good code coverage
- Assist in the mentoring of more junior members of the backend development team
- Take ownership of the work you are engaged in
- Ensure documentation is created on new and existing to features and participate in knowledge sharing sessions
- Participate in the out of hours on call rota on successful completion of their probationary period
What youll need to have
These are the essential skills or experience needed to succeed in this role.
- Previous experience building scalable enterprise solutions and micro-services
- Backend development-focused
- PHP functional & OOP
- PHP frameworks Laravel Symfony etc
- Experience with Unit testing Git and SQL
- Experience in AWS services e.g. S3 SQS Lambda MySQL API Gateway Event bridge Secrets Manager Parameter Store EC2
- Experience in debugging business critical systems
- Caching solutions and performance optimisation and experience in CI/CD and automation pipelines
It would be great if you also have
These are desirable skills or experience and are not essential so we would welcome applications from candidates that dont match this additional criteria.
- Some Golang experience
- Experience working in the healthcare industry and documentation
Our benefits
- Boots Retirement Savings Plan
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Generous employee discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
- Flexible benefits schemeincluding holiday buying discounted gym membership life assurance activity passes and more.
- Access to free 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health our Employee Assistance Programme.
We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at note any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.
Why Boots
At Boots we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots its with you we change for the better.
Whats next
Where a role is advertised as full-time we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process we are happy to providereasonable adjustmentsto help you to be at your best.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.
Keywords
Software Engineer Backend PHP GoLang
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
