SUMMARY

Job Reference: 245021BR
Job Reference: 2 4 5 0 2 1 B R
Islington (Boots Online Doctor)
Permanent
37.5 Hours
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Location: Islington, London
Contract: Perm
Recruiter: Noaman Hussain

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for an experienced Go developer to join our backend development team in delivering the future of digital healthcare. As we transition further towards micro service architecture, you will be an integral part of this work, providing support to our existing Golang services, and helping our developers with their move to Go. Some experience in PHP will be beneficial to help provide support to the existing codebase during the longer term transition process.

What you’ll 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

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 and proficiency in Go
• 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 pipeline